Will Spotify ever stream Hi-Rez?

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Considerably. Yes. There’s not even a contest in my view. I’ve never liked the sound of Tidal and never use it in Music Room One preferring the CD or my own rip to Tidal. But Qobuz is every bit as good as my rips.

Paul

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@Paul ; any chance to find BridgeII as compatible equipment using Qobuz Connect in their native app (which is a joy to use with its pdf-booklets and metadata/background info) ??

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Thanks Paul. I’ve been wondering about that prior to Qobuz’s official launch in the U.S. Given your much trusted experience and opinion I’ll likely give them a shot now over my current Tidal HiFi subscription. Good evening.

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I agree with Paul about the difference in sound quality on top of the difference in reliability.

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The Qobuz + Roon news has been out in the open (buried deep in forums) for over a month.

But Apple Music and MQA? Haven’t seen any rumbling of that. Can you share a link to any forum discussion?

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It’s bit in a forum. Buddy of mine learned from a meeting with an exec from MQA LTD.

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Which forum?

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It’s not in a forum. I heard from a friend.

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Probably unlikely. I don’t believe they have easy APIs like Spotify did to make it work but if they do we’d be happy to. Qobuz is just great.

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Definitely worth it. I am surprised and delighted just how much better Qobuz is than Tidal. I’d love to know why.

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I have been using Qobuz Sublime+, controlled from BubbleUPnP, since February and the quality is so good that I seldom bother to access music on NAS any more.

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I’d like to know why too. It’s interesting because whathifi did a review/comparison between Tidal and Qobuz this February (https://www.whathifi.com/qobuz/review). They found that CD quality files sounded superior through Qobuz, but they also believed that hi res files sounded superior through Tidal (Master’s specifically).

I know this of course brings into question the elephant in the room (associated listening gear), but they’re interesting comments nonetheless. I think I’ll try Qobuz when it comes out and do some a/b listening on familiar tracks and do some similar comparisons for myself (cd quality and hi res files).

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I have a digital subscription to Gramophone. It has live links to Qobus files of many of the albums reviewed. Hope this feature carries over to American Qobus subscriptions.