Amazon music vs Qobuz


I’m currently using Qobuz for streaming music. Amazon music is considerably less than Qobuz but I’m wondering what the differences are. Amazon goes on and on about commercial free music. Which makes me wonder how much is commercial free. Qobuz is 100% commercial free. 

z32kerber

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.

SoniclyQobuz is the best, and has a bunch of hires stuff, not as many masters as I would like but  that may be an option in the future .HQplayer  is a excellent program

to take any well built audio computer to-the next level  you need a dedicated SS drive and plenty of Ram  ,but it has tons of flexibility and Roon already has it built into it your music sounds night and day better then anything out there ,with a streamer you-get  a clean presentation , with HQplayer  your music you decide exactly howto taylor it to your system, having atop sound card is  key which truly lowers the noise floor and little green computer sells Sonore ,if you have the patience to learn the program over several weeks.