The difference between Qoboz stream vs purchased songs


I am a admittedly noob, so please forgive my ignorance. Recently, have had the pleasure of getting a Innuos pulse mini, what a game changer! I knew that with the mini you cant buy music, only stream. Using Qoboz, is there’s a difference in sq between the two? I live on a fixed income so I have to be frugal and am trying to figure out where it’s best spent. Thanks so much for any info on this subject.

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@edcyn I swear that when i checked(double checked) the spelling it was qoboz, must of been in bizarroland at the time. Thanks for the reality check!

...there are some hi-res recordings that Qobuz makes available ONLY for purchase, not for streaming. I have noticed that sometimes when a track or an album says "not available" in my streaming setup that it is available to purchase ...

I have found the same thing with  Qobuz. In the end, there is sometimes no substitute for owning a recording. Same as it ever was.

@blisshifi  and there you have, physics, protocols, and so on be damned, there is nothing more to prove! 

There are plenty of discussion, and no one has ever put up any proof for outlandish claims like you made. No one. Nothing that can be verified, nothing that can explain how it works. No one. 

To just say something about noise and digital errors, that does not work. There is no noise coming from the ethernet cable or down the chain, that is the anti-thesis of how Ethernet works. And digital errors are mitigated by the TCP/IP stack, and if it wasn't things like DRM and encryption would fail and there would be nothing to play. That is how the reality is. 

@gkelly sound quality wise, there is no difference. In fact, Qobuz download entire songs before playback starts during the streaming, and even stores them in a cache. 

 

Qobuz download entire songs before playback starts during the streaming, and even stores them in a cache. 

That false, and debunked in this post. This is very easy to test for yourself, so I'm not sure why you continue to make the claim. You are conflating streaming, downloading, and caching.