Qobuz or Apple Music?


Which service do you use?  Are they close in sound quality, or do you prefer one over the other?  

Thank you for your thoughts.

 

 

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Had Tidal initially, some years ago now, then Qobuz, after some difficulty subscribing in Australia. Have also tried Apple Music, Highresaudio, Spotify and Amazon, but dropped them all. Tidal not quite as good as Qobuz quality wise. Apple doesn’t have the same high definition capability without tethered USB, Qobuz very reliable and great quality, very good range of albums now. Qobuz for me.

I love Qobuz...  started streaming with Tidal... after a few months I dropped them in favor of Qobuz.   Sounds great , good interface 

My girlfriend has Apple Music, it's not bad but I've never listened to it on my system.  Only in our cars.    I am not a big fan of Apple to begin with so.....

Tidal allows my family to enjoy music even though are not audiophiles. I am still in battle of Qobuz and why I cannot get hires without skipping or pauses.

Different day, same results, most prefer Qobuz. I will repeat that Q on $12.99  plan sounds flat to me, no depth. Tidal on $9.99 plan has so much more depth, not even close. Also a little wider soundstage. So I had both and dumped Q. Can't talk of their upper plans since I am limited to streaming on android via wifi setting. So whatever works best in your application is my answer. You can get nearly free trials with both.

Now that Apple Music is doing 24/192 lossless, it’s much much better.  Having said that, I’ll have to give Qobuz another try.