Tidal hifi

“Is tidal hifi worth the premium price in your humble opinion?”

OP,

Well it depends, many here are quite happy with subpar Spotify streaming as they value content over superb sound quality offered by Qobuz and Tidal. How resolving your system is? Is streaming your prime source of listening?

IMO, it’s worth the $120/yr that the subscription is slated to be for me next year via Best Buy.  This is provided SQ stays the same or better and selection stays very...very...comparable if not identical.

I’d like to see high-rez music services become a bit less than $10/month with enhanced competition from an increased number of providers...time will tell.

Yes and no. Please don't beat me but I do like some MQA (headphone system and main stereo). qobuz was too clunky for me; TIDAL and BlueOS are also a mess, twitchy, etc. but they "seem" to be working on it. Since I simplified to only streaming, Spotify and TIDAL are the two I use. It will be interesting to see what Spotify does with their version of HiRes forthcoming. For now, I am a TIDAL subscriber. 

And BTW, if you've not dipped your toes (feet, ankles, legs, torso...) into the MQA GoldenSound YouTubes as well as MQA's reply, you may want to check it out. I said "may". I do recommend Hans response https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwZ5hDzQ5Jg&t=615s 

I pitted Tidal against Qobuz during free trial periods and ended up with Qobuz, but that isn't any knock against Tidal. I found Tidal to be a quality, easy to navigate, very hi-fidelity source. It's just that Qobuz offered more classical, and I preferred Qobuz' slightly warmer EQ.  Go with what your ears tell you. And yeah, I did appreciate that they offered MQA.