"And to be honest most music doesn’t even benefit from lossless too much if at all over full bitrate mp3. It’s those audiophile quality ones that do and those are much more few and far between."
EXACTLY. kacz - as far as I’m concerned, you are preaching to the choir. I doubt Tidal’s content managers have tapped into a hither to unknown and unavailable mother lode of high resolution masters for their mostly back catalog stuff. See my comments above. Something like OMI’s Me4U as commented on by grm (also above) might be one of those "few and far between" exceptions (or an argument for the placebo effect...if I spend 2x more, it must be better). Regardless, I use Spotify much like you do albeit when I find something exceptional I am purchasing most often as physical CD unless only available as a digital file. Haven’t run into many cases where only MP3 is available. The things I’ve purchased from Bandcamp, fortunately, have been available as WAV. But as always, whether it’s Spotify or Tidal that makes you happy - it’s the music that matters most.
EXACTLY. kacz - as far as I’m concerned, you are preaching to the choir. I doubt Tidal’s content managers have tapped into a hither to unknown and unavailable mother lode of high resolution masters for their mostly back catalog stuff. See my comments above. Something like OMI’s Me4U as commented on by grm (also above) might be one of those "few and far between" exceptions (or an argument for the placebo effect...if I spend 2x more, it must be better). Regardless, I use Spotify much like you do albeit when I find something exceptional I am purchasing most often as physical CD unless only available as a digital file. Haven’t run into many cases where only MP3 is available. The things I’ve purchased from Bandcamp, fortunately, have been available as WAV. But as always, whether it’s Spotify or Tidal that makes you happy - it’s the music that matters most.