Tidal vs. Spotify

I tried Tidal for 3 weeks. It is NOT that much better than Spotify on my Venture speakers, MAC Book Pro, ModWright Elyse DAC, Magnus Audio MA-300 amp and WyWires USB cable.

This maybe a stupid question, but does Tidal have "stations" you can choose like XM. Best way to discover new music, imo. I have not tried Sirius XM over internet yet, but I assume the files are compressed.

Tidal has "Artist" radio, but not a genre category like Sirius/XM. It lets you play similar artists to the one you choose, (kinda like stations on Pandora), but not like 60's or 70's or Classic Rock or Deep Tracks, etc. that Sirius/XM has.

I have read a few posts that people have claimed that Tidal doesn't really sound any better than Spotify/Beats/Rhapsody. I must have either a really crappy system or a ultra hi-rez system because the difference on my system is remarkable. Tidal is so much better, it's not even close. But hey, if you can save the money with Spotify, then cool.

I think that the success, (or lack thereof) with Tidal depends on how you feed it to your system.

I did a tidal trial, its, well think a little better than deezer and spotify but think the trial is only normal quality low rez and not high rez.

Just following up on this.

I'm A/Bing Spotify and Tidal right now. There are definitely holes in both libraries and some non-overlap. Tidal definitely sounds better with the lossless streaming.

However...
For $10 a month, you can get 320 kbps with Spotify. If you're a student, that can be discounted further. Additionally, Sony just announced Spotify will be supported on PS3 & PS4, meaning that it can be a one stop media box. Additionally, I think the Spotify apps are pretty robust.

In a world without Spotify, I wouldn't hesitate to pay for Tidal. But Spotify just works so well at this point.