Your entire job is to help me and the rest of us. We spend too much time and energy agonizing over gear when we should be agonizing over recordings. But the depressing reality is that we have no control a really good recording streamed over Tidal will always beat a so-so recording streamed over Qobuz, and vice versa. I also have a dumb, but nonetheless real, skepticism toward MQA and its whole “compressed, but not really” approach. But, like others have said, I do prefer the Qobuz sound for some elusive reason. I’ve invested a decent chunk of money into my digital side on two systems, and I still find it a close call. (2) I question whether it’s decent enough, however, to reveal a difference between HiRez Qobuz files and Tidal’s MQA. (1) OP is doing something that, IMHO, more people should do: bypassing the Node 2 DAC and using it as a streamer only. Almost sounds like two different recordings when listening on Qobuz vs Tidal.
The Qobuz file sounds fuller and has more presence. I listened to ’The Box’ by Roddy Ricch which is a MQA file on Tidal and CD quality on Qobuz. Not a big fan of hip hop, but decided to listen to something that is squarely in Tidal’s area of focus. The CD quality file on Qobuz sounds a LOT fuller and more natural. I’m currently listening to a track that is a MQA file on Tidal vs a CD quality file on Qobuz. In the process, I think side effects of doing this is to take out some of the presence of voices and instruments and add an artificial quality to voices and instruments. I think they have applied some equalization to boost the bass and treble.
Some additional thoughts about Tidal after listening on higher quality equipment.
Spotify Premium even seems to sound better than Tidal.
#Qobuz quality trial
But when I signed up for trial for studio on my phone it said first billing cycle would be for 15.29 Honestly I am just confused on why it advertises at one price but bills at another. On their main website they advertise studio as being 12.99 for monthly plan. I’ll listen a bit more to Tidal, but so far I’m not impressed at all. Found Qobuz today and signed up to try it out. Tidal sounds very two dimensional and flat in its sound quality but with some harshness in the high frequencies. Round 2, Qobuz vs Tidal: So far Qobuz is clearly better than Tidal even listening through pretty cheap desktop passive speakers. When comparing them at this level it's basically going to come down to who has the best sounding source recordings sitting in their audio libraries - And who does the best job at mastering and archiving their audio data - And who can better deliver that audio thru the network endpoints to the customer.My listening notes comparing Qobuz to Tidal: Pick ONE resolution for ALL tests on BOTH platforms. Of course it sounds better since the Qobuz track used a ton more data to depict the track. Keep in mind that NO fair test result can be made by comparing apples to oranges like - playing the same track off Tidal at 16bit/44khz and off Qobuz at 24bit/192khz, and then saying "hmm, yeah, Qobuz sounded better". It's either or THESE are what you're paying for when they tell you this is a "HI-FI" service. Set the streamers up for the SAME audio quality - if we're comparing the two then ANYTHING to do with MP3 is disqualified off the bat no matter what the resolution. not a "smartphone" in your car in the parking lot) like a good desktop with a decent playback system. Pick good equipment with non-sketchy network access (i.e. Since both services are supposed to offer CD quality (that's 44khz sample rate, at 16 bits sample) AND this resolution is readily available on the lowest priced "plans" it would seem a good place to start to compare the two. As long as either service has a decent SEARCH function the rest is rather inconsequential. As far as which app is more intuitive or who's superfluous services are better seems like mostly semantics rather than being heavily inclusive for making a judgement on how well the two perform SONICALLY. I see people commenting about "sound quality" a quite a bit but it all reads like just a lot of subjective opinions.
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