You can’t really draw a conclusion regarding how two services sound based on a tiny sample. I mean you can of course but it does not hold much water. Source material used for streaming varies case by case. Try a sound meter on them. I find hi res internet stations often sound dull compared to lower resolution but louder alternatives. Loudness war is a real thing and not always for the worse subjectively.
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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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