I was a Qobuz beta tester and after my free month signed up for the service, using their Windows10 app, which was dreadfully unreliable, so after a few weeks cancelled my subscription.
I recently converted my Roon setup from having the core run on the Windows10 Pro machine to a newly acquired Roon Nucleus Plus server and it works flawlessly. So I re-subscribed to Qobuz and now have it and Tidal running on the Roon box and have nothing but good things to report!
I'm undecided on which sounds better Tidal or Qobuz, if I had to chose one, I'd say Qobuz wins "by a nose". I find it has a better selection of classical than Tidal. I find that some of the remastered 1970's and 1980's rock & roll sounds fuller, cleaner and more dynamic in MQA, but some don't. More than a few of my classical favorites sound dull and lifeless in MQA. One thing I really like about the Roon Nucleus Plus is that, when I have it decode MQA, the end result sounds better (on my non-MQA capable DAC) than running the same option when the Roon core was running on the Windows machine.
I believe that my setup with Roon and both Qobuz and Tidal is "hear" to stay.
I recently converted my Roon setup from having the core run on the Windows10 Pro machine to a newly acquired Roon Nucleus Plus server and it works flawlessly. So I re-subscribed to Qobuz and now have it and Tidal running on the Roon box and have nothing but good things to report!
I'm undecided on which sounds better Tidal or Qobuz, if I had to chose one, I'd say Qobuz wins "by a nose". I find it has a better selection of classical than Tidal. I find that some of the remastered 1970's and 1980's rock & roll sounds fuller, cleaner and more dynamic in MQA, but some don't. More than a few of my classical favorites sound dull and lifeless in MQA. One thing I really like about the Roon Nucleus Plus is that, when I have it decode MQA, the end result sounds better (on my non-MQA capable DAC) than running the same option when the Roon core was running on the Windows machine.
I believe that my setup with Roon and both Qobuz and Tidal is "hear" to stay.