@dlcockrum most Japanese city Funk albums had been released with great quality Japanese pressing and recording. The material on Quobuz as if they weren't. Takanaka is just one of the examples, but the line-up of such artists can overwhelm R/R hall of fame.
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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.
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I A/B Tidal and Qobuz years ago. I could not discern SQ difference. Chose Qobuz basically due to Jay-Z and Kanye West involvement with Tidal. 🤮
Qobuz been rock solid for me. Although I wish Deezer was supported on ROON I might go back to that. Mis that platform and although only Redbook quality it was good enough. |
Interesting thread.... I am a Qobuz subscriber, enjoy it immensely, find the service stability, volume of choice and the quality very good.... The one thing I never thought about was a John Darko comment on physical media and inability of a service to build a profile on you when using records or CD's...and then sell it or "offer" artists an AI program thinks I would like...I still enjoy the physical media, Qobuz for me is an excellent extension of lunacy |
I’ve been using Amazon HD and Qobuz and I’m going get rid of Amazon. Qobuz has a better selection and it interfaces better with the Bluesound app. Having said that, not every tune/album is recorded/produced/manufactured the same. I just listened to Seychelles by MT and it sounded good. I switched to Eloy, Floating (remastered) and it sounded a bit dull on both Amazon and Qobuz. BTW, I’ve been a Eloy fan since the seventies.
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@nomorelandings - thanks for that suggestion. You can also search for "2L — The MQA Experience (Compilation)" --- another nice recording. |
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