Yet another Qobuz vs. Tidal debate


I'm not convinced that I'm getting "CD Quality" from either service even though I've paid a premium for it.  In terms of the catalog, Tidal has Qobuz beat hands down.  Not even close IMO.  I like the user interface a little more with Tidal.  Similar artists populate right under the album listings.  However, Tidal is expensive when compared to Qobuz, if you're a long term subscriber. With Qobuz I received a considerable discount with a 1 year subscription.  I was paying $24 month (with taxes inc) for Tidal and that was a year ago. It's probably gone up from that. $300 a year buys a lot of CD's (especially when I usually buy mine used).  Has anyone else been as disillusioned as I am?     
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I prefer Qobuz over Tidal but like some of you folks I often get streaming interruptions.  I'm now best email pals with the Qobuz techie, but the interruptions, though less frequent, still remain.  As for my preference for the Q, it's because their Fi is more Hi (this despite the fact I've got MQA), and because their classical selection is far more vast.
I continue to suffer dropouts when I stream Qobuz through my Mytek Brooklyn Bridge.  I've been trading emails with Mytek's techie and he's been unable to pinpoint a problem.  He did, though, convince me to listen to other streaming services to see if I have problems with them, too.I really don't want to subscribe to another paid service to do the test (did I make a rookie error when I quit Tidal when their free trial ended?) but I have been listening to a classical internet radio station that offers complete symphonies and such.  In other words, a perfect test subject/guinea pig.  So far, no interruptions in service no matter how long the file is.  The thing is, fidelity is far less satisfying than Qobuz' superlative transmission.  In any event, what all this nuttiness is doing is make me suspect Qobuz is the dropout culprit.
I might have reported this on another forum but I think I've cured my dropout problem. Looking for any variable whatsoever to mess with I substituted Firefox for Microsoft Edge in my streaming path.  So far so good!  I've yet to encounter a streaming issue, this despite listening to several half-hour plus HD streams.  Fingers and toes crossed.
Big Greg -- dropouts were so awful on the Qobuz app I summoned it  and its icon to the Recycle Bin. It's all in the sorry past, though, at least I hope.  I remain wary of snakes in the digital forest but I'm confident Billy Gates and his Edge have cured me!