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. 

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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.

Tidal sounds great in my gear heap and that made Amazon (tried it briefly but...meh) seem unnecessary...A Node 2i into a Bifrost 2/64 DAC (the Node internal DAC doesn't sound nearly as good as either of my outboard DACs)...I don't see any reason to switch to Qobuz although I might try it just out of curiosity or peer pressure or to seem hip as it's important to at least "seem" hip. 

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.

Tidal encodes hi-res into MQA format, which is a lossy compression method. When unfolded back to hi-res, the data is not identical to the original. Qobuz delivers the original hi-res data lossless and unaltered.