@bkeske Yeah but, it’s absolutely free to try Qobuz so why not when so many members here prefer it and think it sounds better? You have nothing to lose!
Is Tidal messing up for you? Would you Choose Amazon over it?
For the last month, I’ve been battling with all kinds of issues, from corrupt audio files (primarily noticed in my Tesla, from main stream bands like Metallica etc), to songs buffering, skipping and so on).
Initially, I noticed the corrupt issues which always repeated on the same songs in my car, and I assumed they must have downloaded wrong, then when they came back to play again, were playing off a cached copy on the car that was already corrupt. I’d get issues with random buffering issues here and there, but once again, thought it was an issue with my car and it being on a cell service.
At home, I stream from a Sonos player and have also had buffering issues, but I’m also having internet connectivity issues here, so I didn’t correlate the problem as a universal problem. I also constantly had issues with Alexa unable to select a song from Tidal, or skipping to a secondary music service because it couldn’t communicate with Tidal, yet I’d open up the Sonos app and was able to select the Tidal song without a problem, so thought it was once again, an internet issue.
Today, I was having the buffering constantly issues. I left the house to run some errands. Same on my car. Got home, continued problem. Checked my internet.. 0 packet loss yet same problem. Stream from my phone, same problem. Switch music services and works great. I’ve also had some songs sound distorted (at loud volumes, but it felt like a file problem and not an amplification problem).
Have you all had any issues like this before? My phone is tmobile, my car is ATT, and my home is cable internet, so 3 entirely different internet sources, same
problem. I’m considering switching to Amazon’s hifi, but it doesn’t have built in support for my car yet. How have your experience been, and any of you tried both side by side and found benefits or downfalls to one over the other?
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@bkeske Yeah, I get it. But is the non-MQA in true HD? Also, since your Denafrips doesn’t do MQA, why not try Qobuz? It’s cheaper and most here seem to think it sounds better. I had both and will never go back to Tidal if nothing else because I found the Qobuz interface to be much more user friendly. Cheaper, easier to use, potentially better sound quality, and free to try — you do the math. |
Incidentally, Tidal’s MQA algorithm alters the original content to what “they think” sounds better. No thanks. Also, MQA greatly restricts your choice of DACs. IMHO the ONLY reason to consider Tidal is if you have WiFi data limitations that cause dropouts with other services. But, 3G will make that a non issue. Strike 3! Qobuz also has a better user interface. Strike 4! Go with Qobuz. |
It’s free to try a Qobuz subscription, so just do that and see what happens. I will say that when I took my kid to soccer practice and the area had a not great WiFi signal Qobuz wasn’t great and I’d think Tidal’s compacted files may have worked better. But, from home, I much prefer Qobuz and will never go back to Tidal and their silly MQA crap. Just my opinion FWIW. |