Anyone compare Tidal and Spotify Premium Sound?


I've used Spotify Premium for months. I sometimes stream it to my Creek 5350se and Totem Arros via a Gramofon. I think the Gramofon has a decent/fair DAC. Spotify Premium streams at 320kbps.

I tried Tidal's premium hifi feature today.

I ended up comparing tracks from the two services. Tidal clearly sounds better. CLEARLY.

And this is coming from a guy who thinks a solid gauge lamp cord speaker wire is generally fine.

I'm going to stay with Tidal and now work on getting it to a DAC (somehow) at the Creek.

Digital can sound so good.
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Please see these posts in the Audiogon PC Audio Section:

Anyone love TIDAL lossless streaming like I do?
Tidal equivalent for Classical?
Spotify Premium vs Tidal ... opinions?

I agree that Tidal is an excellent music streaming service.
I'm pretty sure you can get a DAC card for your Creek, and its not too expensive.
Personally, I love Spotify, as it allows me to enjoy music without a subscription. Tidal is a little costly for me. Although Spotify music can't either be used on other devices without the Spotify app, I get a Spotify music downloader that helps me to locally download music from Spotify so as for offline playback on any device without limits.
jbhiller posted this thread in 2015, when he was still a child... 😜
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Have Spotify Premium for family plan, most my friends use it so we can share playlist and I use it a lot on bike rides. Moved over to Tidal HiFi which as you discovered sounds better but none of my friends use so I use both. Family plan not as cheap as Spotify but they offer a military/veteran discount which is nice. I’m also using Qobuz which I feel is better than Tidal HiFi and absolutely non of my friends use. Unlike Spotify and Tidal, Qobuz doesn’t have the radio option, that I’m aware of, when you select a song you can let the app play similar types of music. Spotify use to have a larger library so I use all three. I’m still saving money by not buying CD’s which I rarely do. Try Qobuz for the free trial to see if you can hear the difference. 

@jjss49 , Yes!  that was 6 years ago.  I have grown up much since then!


I now have a tube DAC, horn speakers, and have built 5 different pieces of gear, in addition to buying and auditioning so much stuff! 

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