Quobuz subscription

@anzaanimalclinic -- just a reminder that the OP was complaining about the mediocre sound quality of a few specific albums.  Understand that neither Qobuz, Tidal, Spotify or any of the other streaming actually record or produce music themselves. Nor do they "fix" mediocre or poor quality recordings -- they simply give a high quality stream of what's stored on their hard drives.

And, as most of us know from having bought LPs and CDs for decades, recording quality varies from poor to superb. It can be very frustrating to find a piece of music one loves that has been poorly recorded. Sometimes EQing can help a bit, but beyond that there is nothing we can do to fix it.

@mlsstl 

Seems to me he is bagging on Qobuz and promoting Tidal.

I’m just saying -and I think most of the world agrees- Qobuz is superior to Tidal with few exceptions.

I’m just saying -and I think most of the world agrees- Qobuz is superior to Tidal with few exceptions.

I for one disagree. Both are good. Sometimes (some albums) Qobuz sounds better, sometimes Tidal sounds better. I have not counted. But they are very close, most of time. Full disclosure: I put the Qobuz as “primary version” in Roon when an album is available in both. So here is that 🤷‍♂️. And some artist’s / albums are available in only one of them. For the stuff I like, Tidal has the most.

By the way, no horse in this race. I subscribe to both. And will continue to do so until the foreseeable future. I am grateful they both exist.

@thyname Agree they are both very good (I slightly prefer Tidal) and grateful as well that  we have both offered to us!

I have Amazon HD and Spotify. Was listening in my car on my Focal Utopia system yesterday. It sounded awful on Amazon! I then played the same track on Spotify and it was literally night and day better! Strange. I tried Quobuz a few years ago but found the selection kind of limited. May have to give it another go.