Opinion: of the Hi-Res streaming services out there, which do you use and why?
I use Amazon Music for cost and useful feature of identifying the quality of the stream and what your listening device is delivering. I will admit catalog could be better but value is there. I’m curious about other opinions that have tried other hi-res services
I switched from Tidal to Qobuz and am much happier — better user experience and no MQA unfolding crap to deal with, and Qobuz is cheaper. TAS recently did a review of the hi-res streaming services and AMZN came in last due largely to poor hi-res audio quality, so to me it’s just not ready for audiophile prime time yet. Hope this helps.
My subjective impressions of the musicality and sound quality of the major HD streaming services (with Spotify Premium as a lossy comparison) 1. Qobuz 2. Primephonic 3. Spotify Premium (320 kbps Ogg Vorbis which is not lossless) 4. IDAGIO 5. Amazon HD 6 Tidal
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