Quobuz subscription


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

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. 

I have Qobuz.  I like the sound quality on my reference system.  I suspect the artists make good money off streaming as there is a lot more streaming volume per artist than sales of the same physical media.

Did another try today Amazon HD vs Spotify. No contest Spotify was louder by far (maybe not good thing?) but mid bass was so much better and sounded so much more correct.