Tidal vs. Spotify

This has come up many times already. I tried Tidal and cancelled. Search engine is terrible. Selection of classical music and film music is way smaller than Spotify. If you have a real good dac with a great usb input then the difference in sound is not that great.
Alan

Agreed I have both right now and through my laptop I can't tell much of a difference. Who knows maybe my system isn't up to snuff.

Tidal all the way! No contest for sound quality, at least as rendered through Squeezebox touch. And the catalog is good enough for a good time.

In my very good home desktop system I could not listen to Spotify. It was just very bad sounding. Tidal in that system sounds incredible. This system is comprised of the following:

KEF LS50 speakers
Paraound A23 amp
Benchmark DAC2
Windows 2012 Server R2 Computer

At my work I was able to use Spotify without too much annoyance because my setup was not that great. I have the following there:

Audio Engine A2 speakers ($199)
Emotive XDA-1 DAC ($150)
Windows 2012 Server R2 Computer

However, to my surprise TIDAL also sounds better on this work desktop system. So I do not even listen to Spotify | Beats | Pandora at work anymore. It is all TIDAL.

I am looking forward to getting the PS Audio Direct Stream DAC with Bridge II to listen TIDAL through. This will be for my living room system. With the Bridge II I can use the computer on the home office to stream the music to the DAC.

While I don't use my computer to stream and I don't listen to classical or film music, I find Tidal exemplary. I have only found a few albums or artists so far that Tidal did not have, but for the most part, the catalog is great.

I use a hardwired (Cat6a STP) Sonos Connect, coax out to my DAC in my he-man rig. It sounds very, very good.

I'm also trying Deezer at the same time because I got a free 30 day trial, but so far I like Tidal better.

For me, Tidal is keeper.