Qobuz/Tidal Differences

jjss49, I've seen lots  of threads where people express their likes/dislikes for one services or the other and their reasons for it, but not any that come to mind where actual recordings are named so others who want to can also compare to see if they hear things the same way.

c&h, thanks for the track list.  I'll give them a listen to see if I can hear a difference.

JayZ owned a small percentage of Tidal, but sold it a year ago.

I’ve never gotten got a message asking "wouldn’t you enjoy listening to some JayZ?"

I’m not into Rap but I went with Tidal for their catalog and the Tidal Connect integration with my streamer. I didn’t really notice a concrete difference in SQ between Qobuz & Tidal. Both have different versions of some tracks so it's likely that some versions sound better than others.

A big advantage of Qobuz is access to hi-res material in FLAC. Tidal packages anything higher than 16/44.1 in MQA. I don't trust MQA nor Tidal's peddling of it, and that's a reason why I listen to Qobuz streams most of the time.

When comparing 16/44.1, it's hard to tell any differences between the two. It all comes down to the master. I have a subscription for both out of redundancy. There are occasions where one service will not have a track or album, but the other will.