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What do you use for streaming Classical?

All of the streaming services out there (Tidal, Apple, Amazon, Spotify, Qobuz Pandora etc.) pretty much suck for classical music IMHO except Primephonic and the problem with them is they ONLY do classical and they have no wifi controller app so you are tethered to your streamer and not integrated with the rest of your music collection.
I have it from a reliable source that they will integrate with Roon eventually but what do others out there do in the meantime?
I also hear that PSAudio will be coming out with their own proprietary software that will do Classical properly but it will only run on their server and they have been promising something for several years now.
mrbobm
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czbbcl
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Not sure this really answers your question but I stream classical music through an audioengine B1 with Apple Music on my Android phone. I am considering buying a DAC and stream the digital signal from the B1 through the DAC instead of the DAC in the B1, but so far not felt the urgency as the B1 does a very good job. I also listen regularly to  Radio Swiss Classic using the B1.  
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cleeds
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What's your issue with Qobuz, @mrbobm? It is working well for me.
mrbobm OP
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Thanks for the responses. My issue with streaming services other than primephonic is that classical has very unique requirements for music search. Some of the services out there I have tried fail to even recognize that a symphony typically has 4 movements and you want to listen to them one after the other. They look at it like 4 separate songs.  Also different versions with different conductors and orchestras are important.
i have only tried primephonic. Tidal Pandora. So if quobuz or others are better this is what I hope to learn
edcyn
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Primephonic is my go-to classical streaming service. My Mytek Brooklyn Bridge delivers it with excellent fidelity, and the choices they offer is immense. Damn what a library!  Paradise!  Qobuz sometimes (but not always) delivers even better fidelity than Primephonic but its classical library is significantly more limited...if still perfectly okay.

I must report, though, that both services can be glitchy. There are situations where I'll cue up a Primephonic file but the file just won't play. What this means is that I'll try another performance of the piece I want to hear. And usually that performance will cue up. Last night, Qobuz started playing hard-to-get, as well. I'd cue something up and the service would only give me a fraction of a second of it before shutting off. Should I blame one of the updates that Windows perpetually sends my way? I dunno.

BTW, I don't use Roon. I've never felt the need to purchase it. As for the way Primephonic organizes its offerings, to me its a non-issue. It's like going to a different record store.
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