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Qobuz sound quality intermittent issues?

Sat down for a listen few days ago for a listen. Patricia Barber “Cafe Blue”. Sounds flat, soundstage all cluttered in the center, glaring mids, muddy bass, details subdued, highs rolled. Tried several other albums, same thing. Got so frustrated signed up for Tidal trial. Played same albums on Tidal sounds like it should. Back to Qobuz and no bueno. Tested network speed, in the upper 200s. This morning rebooted all routers (eero mesh, Apple AirPort base station. Rebooted the player.  Played same material and seems to be back to normal on Qobuz
Anyone else ending up in the same boat?
What gives?

Auralic Aries G1 player, Bryston BDA-3 DAC. 

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jond
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That's very strange nothing like that has happened to me I have both but use Qobuz 90% of the time.
ghdprentice
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I use Qobuz for several hours a day and have never experienced that. I used to use Tidal, but found Qubuz with a better selection of high Rez content.

I am listening to Cafe Blue right now. Not anything obvious to me. The imaging 3D. Bass solid in back of soundstage. 
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cleeds
5,655 posts
 
I've never had any such issue with Qobuz an can't imagine what might have caused your issue.
jc4659
524 posts
 
I reboot everything on the digital side of my system regularly, meaning about once a week.  Never experienced your Qobuz issue though.
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rhouse
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Also had the same problem , I switched to Primephonic for classical and Amazon for the rest6
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