HI guys,
After reading the thread, let me bring in my experience.
1. Streaming is a very hard form of listening to music, for there are many more factors involved than with other traditional ways. I'll not discuss them here, but a more than decent streamer is required. I tried many options and decided for smallgreencomputers.com equipment, not only for cost but above all for they offer much better equipment than many famous brands. I spent a lot of money with such trials, because, as someone said above, we don't find many options to try from local stores. So, even returning equipment add cost because of shipments.
2. Tidal X Qobuz. I believe that Qobuz sounds better than Tidal (not huge difference, but there is a difference). However, Qobuz has less albums available than Tidal (I'm talking from classical music perspective). So far I'm sticking with Tidal for that reason. Sometimes, even CDs I have in my collection are not available with both of them. Solution I'm thinking: save my unavailable music in an external HD and move to Qobuz for better sound quality.
Enjoy your music!
After reading the thread, let me bring in my experience.
1. Streaming is a very hard form of listening to music, for there are many more factors involved than with other traditional ways. I'll not discuss them here, but a more than decent streamer is required. I tried many options and decided for smallgreencomputers.com equipment, not only for cost but above all for they offer much better equipment than many famous brands. I spent a lot of money with such trials, because, as someone said above, we don't find many options to try from local stores. So, even returning equipment add cost because of shipments.
2. Tidal X Qobuz. I believe that Qobuz sounds better than Tidal (not huge difference, but there is a difference). However, Qobuz has less albums available than Tidal (I'm talking from classical music perspective). So far I'm sticking with Tidal for that reason. Sometimes, even CDs I have in my collection are not available with both of them. Solution I'm thinking: save my unavailable music in an external HD and move to Qobuz for better sound quality.
Enjoy your music!