Tidal Music

Hi Audiogoners,
Is there any advantage to subscribe to Tidal Hifi if we don't have the MQA decoder in our DAC?

Thanks,
Calvin

dangcaonguyen11-05-2019 3:35am

shoff Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 133 posts 12-09-2022 at 02:34am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I had Tidal for 4 years and switched to Qobuz 6 months ago. I much prefer Qobuz for the following reasons: (1) Qobuz just sounds better. Not on every single album but on the vast majority; (2) Qobuz has about 10x more hi-res content than Tidal and I prefer Qobuz 24/96 (or 192) to MQA; (3) Qobuz is quite a bit cheaper than Tidal and if you pay by the year it is more than 50% cheaper than Tidal for a hi-res tier; (4) Qobuz is more classical and jazz oriented and has a lot more offerings in these genres than Tidal. Since I'm not into rap, hiphop or the like I do not miss Tidal at all.
soix Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 8,662 posts 12-09-2022 at 06:35pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @cagma7 Why is Qobuz still not available in Our Home and Native Land? Seems very strange and unfair to our knobs from the North.
cagma7 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 25 posts 12-11-2022 at 04:59pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I know that Qobuz sign an agreement with QUB music, a local streaming service who is using Qobuz files (but in MP3 format only). Therefore I suspect we won't see Qobuz in Canada for a while. Hope I am wrong...