Absolutely agree with nice write up dlcockrum. Subscribe to Qobuz (NO U) and Tidal through Roon and directly to my dCS Bartok. Much prefer the Qobuz catalog.
Check your ethernet connection if there's a quality issue.
Enjoy the music.
Quobuz subscription
Hi I've recently joined Quobuz to try-out few tracks.
The ones released on 70's and 80's Japanese jazz vinyls sound really muffled. Thought they would sound better vs. YouTube streaming channel of Terminal Passage that actually mostly plays its digitized vinyl collection, but quality is too far away from even YouTube.
I checked the quality and all of them are CD 44.1kHz, but the sound quality is so far away from CD 44.1kHz.
So what's there to check? Is only major-popular recording industry albums sound good there.
I checked that via my Mytek DAC and via my cheap DAC and both DACs show nearly-same differences on the playback vs. YouTube.
So far Tidal actually gets my best grading on items outside of RR hall of fame or outside of recording industry standards.
It really seems to me that Quobuz is over-advertised.