Qobuz vs Airplay

John Darko did a deep dive into Airplay a few months ago. It is lossy. At best it provides 320Kbps .aac files and often goes to less than that depending on how close you are and other factors. A very long time ago when Airplay first came out, it wasn’t lossy, but upon realizing that it was killing the iPhones’ batteries quickly they changed it to be lossy so the amount of data being transferred is far less. It also now sends data in short bursts and is buffered, not continuous, to free up the bandwidth for any other tasks needing attention.

They should have called it "Airplay 2" but didn’t, hence the confusion on some people’s part.  I’d opt for Qobuz over Wi-Fi every time. Airplay isn’t even as good as LDAC Bluetooth.  But hey, for convenience, and not critical listening, why not use whatever is easiest for you? I use Airplay via an iPAD to stream music from webpages, such as the Internet Live Music Archive to my streamer. Works fine. 

I use an Aurender N200 streamer.  I usually run Qobuz through the Aurender Conductor app.  However I also have the Idagio classical music app which plays through the Aurender using AirPlay. The difference in sound between Qobuz and AirPlay is negligible.  They both sound wonderful. It is true though that hi res files on Qobuz do sound a little better

Is it just me and my understanding of the question but, isn't Qobuz a streaming service and Airplay is just the how you get Qobuz to your streamer?

Dokosan when you say Airplay vs Qobuz how are you listening to Qobuz when not using Airplay?

I listen to Qobuz in the car with AirPlay with the standard car radio.