Why limit yourself to one streaming service?


I’m always puzzled when I read posts from people with 10K+ systems who feel they have to choose between Tidal or Qubuz or whatever. Sign up for however many brings you more joy. That’s my two cents.

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Showing 2 responses by edcyn

As is mentioned above, Qobuz and Tidal generally cover too much of the same territory to make it imperative to have both.

When it came time, though, to track down a second streaming service for my all consuming, gotta-have-it-all classical needs, I ended up getting Idagio. 

For a time I subscribed to the classical streaming service Primephonic, but when Primephonic got subsumed by Amazon, I decided to switch to the scrappy German classical provider.  True, Idagio doesn't offer Hi Def, but their CD quality streams are more than good enough for me. Putting it another way, the Idagio dudes & dudettes have first class sets of ears.

fuzztone -- I've got thousands of LPs, singles and CDs, but it's still eminently worth it to me to essentially have access to a good part of the rest of the recorded music universe. It doesn't hurt that some of the recordings on the streaming services are surprisingly excellent.  It doesn't hurt that they're minus the cracks, pops and the wow ya' get from off-centered pressings.