I listen to classical 90% of the time and use Spotify Premium as a supplement to my vinyl collection. I recently bought a terrific Cambridge Audio CXN streamer so I decided to try Tidal again. Of course the sound is great but for Classical Music Tidal leaves a lot to be desired. If you do a search for Sibelius, for example, you get a listing for records for a mixed bag of composers, many having nothing to do with Sibelius. The listings are very limited and incomplete.They seem to have some kind of generic album listings for many composers that comprise some sort of assembled playlist and are not specific recordings by some artist, orchestra or conductor. Compared to Spotify or Naxos/Classicsonline they are not good and the improvement in sound quality does not make up for the poor selection of artists and recordings. I will cancel Tidal again when this monthly billing is used up. For the money and for my ears Spotify Premium fills the bill. I use it to explore music and composers so when I find something I really like I find a vinyl recording for my library.
Anyone love TIDAL lossless streaming like I do?
I love Tidal. The sound quality from its Hifi mode (lossless) is truly amazing and awesome. I have lot's of SACDs and lossless on even old recordings in 16/44 rivals it. If you felt sorry that there was not enough Hires content, try Tidal.
My little Chord Hugo dac produces sound that is about on par with my EMM XDS1 cdp. The Tidal streaming even sounds better than the Hires downloads I tried from Acoustic Sounds and Musicdirect. I'm not kidding. I hope people support this because I don't want it to go out of business. Please give it a try. I'm just a user and longtime audiophile with no other interest than keeping this remarkable service alive so I and others can use it.
My little Chord Hugo dac produces sound that is about on par with my EMM XDS1 cdp. The Tidal streaming even sounds better than the Hires downloads I tried from Acoustic Sounds and Musicdirect. I'm not kidding. I hope people support this because I don't want it to go out of business. Please give it a try. I'm just a user and longtime audiophile with no other interest than keeping this remarkable service alive so I and others can use it.