Just FYI: Tidal is consolidating their HiFi and HiFi Plus tiers

@overthemoon curious. What are you looking for with another streaming service that you feel Tidal isn't providing?  I want to try Deezer and Qobuz for the heck of it but wish they both had "Connect" apps to make using them easier. I heard Qobuz was going to have one soon. Then hopefully the hardware can have a firmware update to integrate it. 

I do like the fact that Deezer pays a user centric division of your monthly subscription to the artists that you actually listen to and not just a check to the labels for them to divvy as they see fit.  I listen to some eclectic stuff and it'd be nice to know my $$ is going to support those artists and not mostly Adele. 

@fuzztone I know. MQA might have been a useful thing for maybe about three years when most of the country was stuck with DSL speeds, but not now. Simply no need for any lossy compression schemes anymore with FLAC 24-bit/192KHz possible (if the labels provide such files to the streaming services). 

I figure Tidal jumped on the MQA bandwagon early to differentiate themselves from Apple and Amazon, whether most audiophiles understood it or not. 

I still wish you could buy a yearly subscription at a discount though. 

@tksteingraber I was fortunate I saw an email from them a few months before my account was going to be cancelled unless I "signed up" for their monthly plan - and notified Best Buy I wanted a refund.

They went about it wrong. If they wanted to kill the idea of a yearly subscription it would have made customer service look far better had they honored the financial agreement you had made with them, until your subscription was up, and THEN told you to move to a monthly subscription model.

I know they got away with it legally probably due to the fine print, but shouldn’t payment up front have constituted a legally binding agreement with them to provide services for that year? I would have thought so, but I’m not a lawyer.

I was mad enough to *almost* cancel them, but I had jumped through several hoops with a 3rd party software to transfer all my old Spotify album favorites and playlists over to Tidal and didn’t want that hassle all over again.

@overthemoon thanks. I'm curious to see how this all goes come April 10th. Looking forward to getting a little more for my money and dipping my toes gingerly into this Sony Spatial Audio stuff just for some fun. I'm definitely more into the "two-channel stereo" camp. As John Darko says endless on his website, High Rez audio is nice, but out of all the catalogs of streaming services, such higher resolution files make up just 10%. That was one reason I decided to just get the Hi-Fi tier. CD quality isn't bad.