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This is where Qobuz comes in, offering a FLAC based streaming service that streams at up to 24-bit 192 kHz quality.

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Then news began to pour in that MQA might not be all it’s cracked up to be, possibly even being less than CD quality. For the most part, I simply didn’t hear a difference. However, like many, when I began listening to MQA encoded streams on Tidal, I didn’t walk away all that impressed.

When Tidal began offering Master Quality Sound, which used MQA encoding, a supposedly lossless perceptual coding system which could provide High-Resolution sound in above CD quality, I thought of it as a bonus. So far I’ve been all too happy to spend $20 a month on Tidal to gain access to CD-quality sound. I was convinced from these comparisons that I could not live with these lossy services. The best way I could describe it is like taking the life out of the music. The overall presentation just sounded weaker. In my listening tests comparing Spotify, Amazon, and Tidal I found Spotify and Amazon to sound muted with the leading edge of dynamic transients and the bass sounding flat. Tidal, on the other hand, offers a lossless FLAC based streaming option. The major players in streaming audio (Apple, Spotify, and Amazon) use a lossy compression algorithm that deteriorates the sound of the streaming service.

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Tidal does allow you to download some of your favorite music and play it back via their app which is useful when you're on an airplane and have no wi-fi. However, I am not sure why I would want to buy downloads. I can understand the lure of downloading since I have scenarios where I often want to listen to high-resolution music and I don’t have a good internet signal. Unlike Tidal, Qobuz, allows you to buy the music as well. Both allow you to stream music or download a modest selection of songs to listen offline. Like Tidal, Qobuz offers multiple ways to access music. Tidal vs QoBuz High-Resolution Music Streaming YouTube DiscussionĪlthough both are considered audiophile streaming services, Qobuz does differentiate itself from Tidal in potentially important ways.

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