Tidal vs Quobuz

I had both and dropped Tidal. Only one album I haven't been able to find on Qobuz that Tidal has so far and it's a few dollars less. 

dadork:  disagree with your assessment re.  Qobuz.  Not only do I constantly find that albums are missing  sometimes I can't find anything from a particular artist.  To be fair, I experienced a similar problem with Tidal although less so.

I’ve used Spotify, Deezer, Amazon HD, and Tidal over the years. For the past month I’ve been comparing sound quality and selection between Qubuz and Tidal through an MQA capable streamer. Given all the praise for Qubuz’s sound quality on this forum I thought I would be adding this service. Still experimenting, but here’s been my experience:

1. When transferring a playlist of 240 songs through Soundiiz from Tidal to Qubuz, roughly 30 songs couldn’t be found on Qubuz. The same playlist was transferred in its entirety from Spotify to Tidal. With this said, music consisted of some pretty deep and eclectic tracks.

2. Qubuz’s greatest feature for me has been the ability to look up an artist’s label, as well explore Qubuz community members playlist - Tidal does not have either of these features.

3. Tidal Connect, like Spotify Connect, really is a game changer for me. The ability to stay within the Tidal app to control my streamer (volume, create playlists, discover new artists) vs using the streamer’s user interface (limited related artist data) is not only convenient, but much more enjoyable. Tidal Connect is also much more responsive than using Airplay, which seems to have a lag when skipping songs, music selection, and volume control through Quboz. And for me, Tidal Connect sounds “cleaner” than Airplay through Quboz due to, what I can best communicate, interpretation of a lower noise floor.

Streamer: NAD C 658 using BlueOS

I have both. They each have some things that the other doesn’t - Tidal has a larger library and I like the "my mix" feature where they put together playlists for me based on my tastes. I prefer Qobuz because there’s no gimmick like MQA, just high res tracks. If I had to choose one, I’d get rid of Tidal. The combined cost of both isn’t much more than a single vinyl record, and it’s nice to have options.

Dumped Tidal a year ago....for me Qobuz catalog and SQ easily trumps Tidal. You can keep both for now but once you get used to Qobuz high quality streaming you will drop Tidal at some point :-)