With critical listening from both Tidal and QoBuz, I favor definitely QoBuz over Tidal for sound quality. The better your digital components, the easier it will be to detect the differences with less noise and jitter...
STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES
I am 100% digital using Roon. I play from my extensive hard drive, Qobuz and Tidal. I love to find new music using Roon Radio or Roon suggestions. Here is my issue: I generally find Qobuz to sound better on my system. I do not have final unfold of MQA on my Tambaqui DAC; yet ROON always defaults to a Tidal version.
So I will search 'versions' and select the highest resolution of a Qobuz version.
Can Roon be set to default to Qobuz vs defaulting to a Tidal version?
Do others agree that Qobuz sounds better?
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In it's simplest form, whether MQA is trying to do a good thing or not, is the fact they are basically DRM's music in a way, creating a proprietary format that requires manufacturers (and ultimately you) to pay them to use it. No thanks @fastfreight they literally just added that feature a couple days ago. very nice! Another feature that's buried in Roon is "Customize album display" In General settings tab.
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@jeffseight I was lucky that Sense came out just before my Roon subscription was set to renew. I had no reservation choosing Sense's improved SQ over Roon's vast library and search functions. And yes Qobuz is better than Tidal by enough I cancelled my Tidal subscription. |
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