We certainly are I love Tidal!
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Yeah, it's great. I listen to stuff that I never would have bought, and not a 30 second clip through my computer speakers, but the whole album or any part of it through my main system. All the new releases show up on your tablet on Thursday night, it's a music lover's dream. I hope they can figure out a way to adequately compensate artists and keep the cost reasonable. |
Also agree. In my case, having so much available sometimes causes a sort of paralysis. I don't know what I want to listen to next. That's where the "stations" and playlists come in handy - great for finding artists you don't know or think about about. Another shout out to Radio Paradise and their new lossless streaming option - a great way to find new music. Dick |
Absolutely! Tidal with Roon is a fantastic interface. I have 3TB of music but Tidal gives me access to so much more music of CD quality that I didn’t buy and could not afford to buy. Definitely the future of music! Assembly line work of feeding a CD tray in a CD player is a thing of the distant past and you shouldn’t have to do assembly line work unless it is a paying job! |
I admit that the ritual of cleaning the vinyl or CD and cueing it up is satisfying. But exploring the whole wide world of music is so exciting. And now that we have at least 16/44 resolution it rivals my hard drive of a mere 1500 CDs on the hard drive. Plus I have a second residence with its own system and in the vehicles, so Tidal goes where I go. My MacMini and NAS will get less service now. She was a constant companion for many years. But, it won’t replace vinyl, for what it’s worth. |
Server that streams Radio Paradise, your CD collection at a swipe of the pinky ( is that assembly line work ? ) and Tidal is the bomb !!!! i am listening to Valerie Carters great voice and work ( Ringing doorbells in the Rain ) on Tidal : NAIM Atom to MC240 to Vandersteen 1ci Speakers - sublime... whats next ????? |
Loving Tidal, I've had it for about 6 months. It's the first service I've ever paid for on a monthly basis, but costing me less than one CD a month. I'm tripping down memory lane with hundreds of tracks from my youth, as well as my favorite classics and beats. The streaming is fast, easy and reliable. Woohoo and way to go. The TT and vynal are no longer getting tge attention they once did. Running Tidal through a Nad Bluos module, using a tablet running the Bluesound app. I see room for improvement in the app, but loving and enjoying the sound. I've also steamed Tidal through my phone (connected to an amp) at parties, reliving some ausome musical magic. It's a keeper and setting a great standard that will likely be a benchmark for some time. |
God call on Radio Paradise. I'm glad they're still playing. Also good call @sdj888 on paying less than one CD a month. That's a good comparison. I love having Tidal. Spotify was decent, but my Oppo streams Tidal (as does the Onkyo receiver in the family room) through my Hegel and AZ Adagios and it's a beautiful interface. My CD's remain in their cases for the most part. |
I have been subscribing to Tidal HiFi since Oct 2015 and would find it hard to live without. Because of Tidal’s "Similar Artist" feature and "Artist Radio" channel, it is so easy to discover similar artists. And their related artist programming really do present similar artists and not just random artists. So Tidal is a great platform for discovering new artists. Question about Roon. I understand that Roon logically organizes your existing digitized music collection and enhances it with artist information, but what value would Roon add to a Tidal only subscription? |
It is great that it worls for some, but I find Tidal missing content. Ok, do not burn me at stake for saying that, but it is true. I visited a nice equipment shop in Northern Virginia to check some speakers out. Very friendly salesman brought an iPad, or something like that, and asked what I wanted to hear. Well, I brought my CDs that I burned with some music I was familiar with just for that occassion. No luck, system had no CD player so he happily asked me what I wanted as "it was all on Tidal". Not exactly. We managed to find one of the songs, but version was from some live album recorded from, what it sounded like, last row in the garage with microphone hidden in the shoebox under the seat. Tidal was missing the original studio album, it was missing the Greatest Hits, too. Why it had a few more obscure ones is beyond me. As I mentioned, the salesman was very friendly and understanding and he left me alone with that iPad so I could look and listen in peace and at my own pace. I tried some classical music, nothing esoteric. No luck. I kind of got an impression that Tidal does not have classical at all, but even I do not believe it. It surely does not have the greatest selection of classical, though. An hour later, almost exactly the same happened in another very nice equipment shop in Maryland. I listened to whatever the salesman suggested as, by that time, I realized that Tidal and my preferences did not mix too well. My take-home observations of the day were: -guys selling nice equipment in DC area are really friendly, non-pushy, non-arrogant, and know their stuff -Tidal has become the standard for demoing equipment -Tidal has very limited selection -Tidal must be convenient if you just want to have some music playing in the background or exploring new music you have never heard before, but for that I use Internet radio from around the world To each his own, to me my CDs, records, Internet radio. |
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I have noticed that while Tidal seems to have every artist, they don’t always have every recording of the artist. So if you are searching for a specific recording they may not have it even though they have many others by the artist. Living artists`recordings seem to be missing more than dead artists so it may be a licensing issue. |
I realized the real value of Tidal when I started working from home recently. Acre laptop-Eastern Electric DAC-Emotiva stereo amp-Warfedale Diamond 10.1. Very simple. On the lower volume side. From their to my main systems and never looking back. One question I didn’t see answered above. How would Roon be of value if I am only streaming and not playing from my library? |
I am not using Roon myself so I can’t give you more detail. This discussion from the Roon website could probably help: What advantages are there to using Roon with Tidal vs Tidal app on its own? https://community.roonlabs.com/t/what-advantages-are-there-to-using-roon-with-tidal-vs-tidal-app-on-its-own/27314 |
Tidal at times is fantastic and other times as mentioned will drop out, quality varies. I was very impressed and the point was also made that limited offerings exist, true as well. I’ve also found many songs, artists I would never purchase. I also use Amarra software for tidal which improves the sound stage and I use to stream other music. I go through stages of listening to streaming, other sources and I also still love listening to CD’s, SACD’s, DVD-A. |
