Ended my Qobuz subscription


My music tastes largely revolve around jazz recordings and I find a deep lacuna in Qobuz's jazz offerings, as well as with some other music genres.  I just cancelled my Qobuz subscription and am back with Tidal Hifi which has a much deeper jazz catalogue than that from Qoubuz. 
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Showing 1 response by big_greg

For critical listening I prefer Qobuz.  I like the fact that I can listen to hi-res files and don't need any proprietary equipment (hello MQA) to do so. 

Tidal does have a bigger library and the MQA files do sound good, even with a non MQA DAC (I have both).  If I can't find something on Qobuz, then I'll go look for it on Tidal and can usually find it.

I also have Spotify and Pandora for less critical listening (background music, in the car, etc.)  Spotify does a better job of putting together playlists based on my musical tastes than Tidal and Qobuz doesn't currently have this feature. 

For me it's not a matter of either/or, I use them all based on their strengths. 

If Qobuz's library expands to compete with Spotify and Tidal and they provide custom playlists on par with Spotify's, then I would probably go with Qobuz only.