Amazon music vs Qobuz

hilde45 -- Yeah, I guess they had to come up with something that was unused and sounded vaguely classical. In any case, I may have mentioned this before here but Idagio seems to have about every classical recording ever released. From Karl Muck to Kaija Saariaho.  It's the proverbial Aladdin's Cave.

The big question is what sounds better.  Tidal Hi-Fi subscription or Qobuz.  Someone demonstrated Qobuz in a blind test and I picked Qobuz every time.  Problem is I am not willing to give up the Tidal format.  I was sold on the idea of hooking up my Node 2i to my ARCAM via digital cable.  The guy from the Cable Company told me the DAC inside my ARCAM was better than the DAC inside the node 2i.  However, don't I give up being able to reproduce hi-res up to 24/192?  I believe Qobuz does not need to fold the music files 7 times like Tidal.  Perhaps as a result Qobuz is able to unfold faster and image better. 

@larry5729 

High Res and MQA are two separate things. You can play 24/192 without it. I know that for sure on Amazon and I’m pretty sure it’s the same with Tidal and Qobuz.

The way I might parse this question is would you rather listen to music via Airplay or with ethernet hard wired into your streamer. For SQ airplay isn't as good as wired up or wified in. Many here are all about SQ.

The Qobuz (and Tidal) interfaces versers Amazon's is something to consider.

Finally Amazon doesn't play with Roon. So there's that. Amazon doesn't work with native Lumin software. AURALiC Lightning DS would also be another airplay kind of interface. For now that's it, I think.

Also with Qobuz I was also to import (with some losses) all of my years in the making playlists from iTunes.

Airplay 2 does 44/16 which is CD resolution so no problem there. The sound is CD quality. Also includes metadata including album art in case of streamers with a digital display.