Qubuz feedback and membership Plan Suggestions


I received an email with a welcome to the US launch of Qobuz yesterday. Has anyone here had experience with the service? How does it compare to Tidal, Pandora, etc? Any suggestions as to which subscription plan is better than another? Any insight is appreciated  
gwbeers

Showing 8 responses by uberwaltz

Not sure Lowrider.
I am using the Studio plan via the Auralic Lightning app and it shows the hires rates and plays in the hires rates.
When I had Bluos I only trilaed Quboz at cd quality.
Hopefully somebody can help
1markr.

I would say 60% was about right for myself.
But they have 1 month to go so will see.
And yes if a lot more rock is not brought in it will likely be shut off until they do improve the rock catalogue... or Tidal goes bust!
Honestly at least half of the albums I have saved on Quboz are hires at 24/ 96 and a few 24/192.
Apparently the word is they have listened and are adding lots of titles daily.

Will be monitoring it over the course of my free month membership.
Ok
Time to eat a big slice of Humble Pie!

Upon discussion with a friend who stated that Quboz 24/96 was superior to same Tidal MQA album I had to sign up again .
At least there is now a 1 month free trial.

And I concur.
Playing Stranger to Stranger by Paul Simon and the Quboz 24/96 is just so much better than the Tidal MQA version.
More body, more depth, just more of everything..

And while the rock catalogue still lags behind Tidal, they appear to have added a lot more rock since my last venture.
Looks like I may stay with the Studio tier after the month is up.
Lowrider.

I have always been on Tidal hifi tier at $20 which gives MQA masters.

On both Deezer and Quboz it was just the 16/44 tier.

However when comparing I always used same 16/44 albums.
And that right there is the main difference as far as I can tell between Tidal and Quboz.

Rockers will want to go with Tidal for its far more extensive rock catalogue.
Jazz and classical seem to be much better served by Quboz.

And it likely just boils down to that.

I never could tell any difference in SQ between Tidal, Quboz or Deezer on 16/ 44 streams.
@lowrider57 

I used Deezer for a while too and found their catalogue to be very comparable to Tidal for rock music.

However it had a lot of playability issues that were shared by some other members here as well.

So it was bye bye Deezer too......
From a long time user of Tidal and a pre launch trial of Quboz here are my thoughts.

SQ is about the same.
Service and speed is about the same.
Levels and pricing about the same.

For rock music Tidal wins hands down!
Quboz did not have half of my saved Tidal albums in its catalogue.
Apparently Quboz is much better for jazz and classical selections, I don’t listen to those genre so can’t confirm.

I hear so many people criticize Tidal for its catalogue layout and search function. Again all I can comment on is rock and can honestly say I find it perfectly simple and powerful in use.

Just my 3 cents.