On mid-fi do you hear much difference between Tidal and Spotify

Thank you so much.  I download the Tidal Software on the Mac so I am the browser does not matter in that case.

I appreciate the information.  I have not played extensively with either but I a getting used to the Tidal interface on iOS and my mac.

I can tell you that even bluetooth from my phone with Tidal downloads and Pandora at its best is night and day.  Pandora is mostly horrible.  Plugging in with Tidal is CD equivalent to my ears.

Thanks Glennewdick, I have no way to measure the it but the app does say HIFI/MASTER when it is playing.  So I presume it is as good as I will get.

Neat link.  I will try this.  I am going guess I can’t hear a difference on my iPhone and decent headphones.

Ghosthouse, on a Mac you can download their software to be resident on you computer so no browser is needed.  That streams the highest bit rate.

Ghosthouse, I have not had any buffering at all during my trial.  So maybe the download is better for that?  I am not sure.

I am pretty sure I cannot hear a difference with Spotify and Tidal on my Mac and iPhone.  But I wonder if I bluetooth stream a Tidal download vs Spotify download in the car if I will?  Right now Tidal via bluetooth in the car is pretty good but Pandora is way worse.

Back to the NPR tracks. Using my iPhone, and $50 headphones or my Mac with these headphones left me guessing and I only got a couple of them right and picked the 128 twice!

At 48 I guess my hearing is not as good as it used to be. Having said that, I could hear some differences and I think my expectations were wrong. Since I don’t remember which is which I may try again and I may also try it through a real system.

The things I was trying to key in on were space between instruments, flattened sound, harmonics, lack of extension.

None of it panned out. I do think that perhaps and that is a perhaps is that the 128 sounds a bit more rolled off and that would make sense. But the unexpected part is I kind of like what seemed like a midrange emphasis.

Spotify is clearly enough for my phone, computer, car listening.

I do wonder if adding a DAC like a Dragonfly would change this outcome?

Thanks Ghosthouse.