I stream Tidal and Qobuz through Roon on a dedicated Mac Mini —> USB —> MSB DAC —> Whammerdyne SET amp —> Spatial X5 speakers. With this setup Tidal and Qobuz are VERY close, but I decided to consolidate my library to Qobuz. Wouldn’t you know, about 15% of my library was available on Tidal only. So for yucks I checked Apple music, which is part of my Apple One subscription, and voila - all of the albums missing from Qobuz were available on Apple. So now my project is to compare Qobuz vs Apple Music lossless/hi res. If Apple has all of the music I want and the SQ is comparable to Qobuz, I can ditch Roon, Tidal and Qobuz and save several hundred $$ a year.
Qobuz or Apple Music?
Which service do you use? Are they close in sound quality, or do you prefer one over the other?
Thank you for your thoughts.