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Apple Music vs Tidal for SQ

I compared Tidal to Apple music for the first time using speakers, not headphones. Apple seems bright and a bit less smooth the tidal on my system. I never tried the apple codec before but so far not a fan, it seems to have treble that is a bit fatiguing. What is your experience?

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mahler123
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I haven’t listened to Tidal in years.  I switched from Qobuz to Apple for various reasons and while I give Qobuz a slight edge in sonics I found Apple to be a lot closer than I had anticipated 

mahler123
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I gave Qobuz the slight nod over Apple in a post above, but Apple is certainly listenable.  Neither of them sounded as good as my CDs either played from a streamer or on a CDP, but we are talking really small degrees of differences here.

I am curious to see if Apple's new Classical derive, to be started on 4/4, will offer any improvement over their current standard sonically

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