No preference opinions from me. But they all offer CD quality and above streams. So it all comes down to the features and functionality of their music app and their user interface and pricing. Select the one that has the features you want/like at the price you are willing to pay. Anything Cd Quality is pretty much all you need.Hi Everyone
Would like your opinion on what do you prefer - Tidal… Qobuz…Apple for true Hi Res tracks?
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I'm not remotely interested in Hi Res given that it offers no audible benefits to Redbook/CD in real world listening.Hi Everyone
Would like your opinion on what do you prefer - Tidal… Qobuz…Apple for true Hi Res tracks?
Thanks
You're basically told wrong.What about master tracks? CD quality is good but not the highest quality you can get I’m told?
Have your hearing tested. As we age we lose hearing range. Mostly up high above 12K and up. So all that extra quality goes to waste because we can’t hear that high. Your profile says you are 63. So if you can still hear at 15k and above you are lucky, gifted or both. There are some hearing tests online that are free you just need headphones of relatively good performance. Here is an online hearing test I have used in the recent past:What about master tracks? CD quality is good but not the highest quality you can get I’m told?
ThanksBroken record here on Hi Res. I use Qobuz because of the music selections of Jazz, International, Acoustic, Classical are very good. It seems Iike Tidal, which I had for a year, had more contemporary, country, rap and rock stuff. Hi Res takes up more bandwidth and I live where internet providers are few so some buffering will occur on HR sometimes, not often, but annoying when it does .
You're basically told wrong.
CD/redbook was very carefully designed to be transparent to human hearing. Pushing more data in there doesn't make an audible improvement.
I don't care for hi res for the aforementioned reasons. I use Apple for ease of use and the ability to play „albums“ more easily.Would like your opinion on what do you prefer - Tidal… Qobuz…Apple for true Hi Res tracks?
Just limited availability afaik....but no advantage in terms of highest resolution offered.No one's mentioned Deezer yet. I find their quality to be very good.
I have been rather happy with Deezer for the past couple of years, and since it streams at Airplay 1 (not 2) it goes at CD quality. I understand that the ability to stream at hi res is not the same as the catalogue being all hi res, in fact maybe 10% or whatever of a streaming service such as Tidal or Qobuz actually is hi res? I do wish Deezer offered a Connect feature to my KEF system, but that is something for another thread.No one's mentioned Deezer yet. I find their quality to be very good.