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Hi I've recently joined Quobuz to try-out few tracks. 

The ones released on 70's and 80's Japanese jazz vinyls sound really muffled. Thought they would sound better vs. YouTube streaming channel of Terminal Passage that actually mostly plays its digitized vinyl collection, but quality is too far away from even YouTube.

I checked the quality and all of them are CD 44.1kHz, but the sound quality is so far away from CD 44.1kHz.

So what's there to check? Is only major-popular recording industry albums sound good there.

I checked that via my Mytek DAC and via my cheap DAC and both DACs show nearly-same differences on the playback vs. YouTube.

So far Tidal actually gets my best grading on items outside of RR hall of fame or outside of recording industry standards.

It really seems to me that Quobuz is over-advertised.

 

czarivey
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curiousjim
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I’ve been using Amazon HD and Qobuz and I’m going get rid of Amazon. Qobuz has a better selection and it interfaces better with the Bluesound app.

Having said that, not every tune/album is recorded/produced/manufactured the same. I just listened to Seychelles by MT and it sounded good. I switched to Eloy, Floating (remastered) and it sounded a bit dull on both Amazon and Qobuz.

BTW, I’ve been a Eloy fan since the seventies.

 

philosurfer
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@nomorelandings - thanks for that suggestion. You can also search for "2L — The MQA Experience (Compilation)" --- another nice recording.

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krell_fan1
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I am a Roon member and among all of us who subscribe to both Tidal and Qobuz favor Qobuz as the streaming service with the absolute highest level of SQ. So as others have said, would be helpful for you to provide an example. 

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krell_fan1
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I am a Roon member and among all of us who subscribe to both Tidal and Qobuz favor Qobuz as the streaming service with the absolute highest level of SQ. So as others have said, would be helpful for you to provide an example. 

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gakerty
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I had both Amazon HD and Qobuz, and have canceled Amazon.  Amazon was sometimes misleading (Ultra HD/24bit >48hkz) with an album labeled as high res/Ultra HD, but really only 1-2 tracks per album were 24bit, the rest being redbook.  While the overall catalog is larger on Amazon, proper high res is more plentiful on Qobuz.  Also, I could never get Amazon to be bit perfect on Windows even on exclusive mode, since my DAC would display what I have set Windows or my driver to, not the bit rate of the track that is playing.  With Qobuz, using my RME ASIO driver or WASAPI the proper bit rate is displayed on my DAC.  (It's moot now, since I don't use my computer for most streaming anymore).

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