Qubuz feedback and membership Plan Suggestions

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.

I like that Deezer offers the original recordings in addition to the remastered albums. I've seen this for much of the rock catalogue and some jazz.

@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......

I have been on Quobuz for about 3 weeks now and love it. I am surprised to hear folks are having playback issues I wonder are those just on hi-rez recordings? I am doing the Hifi tier my Dac won't do hi-rez and I am fine with cd quality sound. I have had no dropouts or files that won't play so far running it on the 5ghz band on my Auralic Aries Mini. I've basically just been playing jazz so far and love the catalog!

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.