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.

 

 

128x128mikeydee

It’s certainly not convenient to get the 24/192 lossless into your amp though.

@m_j_s Curious, how is it not convenient? That should be handled seamlessly between your streamer and dac...no?

I agree with everyone.  Tidal,  Qubuz,  radio paradise.  They all sound great. 

Bluesound probably has the best user friendly app. Can be used with NAD devices as well. .

 

I find that tidal has the best ability to create and discover new music. They also do videos which are great. 

I stream Tidal and Qobuz through Roon on a dedicated Mac Mini —> USB —> MSB DAC —> Whammerdyne SET amp —> Spatial X5 speakers. With this setup Tidal and Qobuz are VERY close, but I decided to consolidate my library to Qobuz. Wouldn’t you know, about 15% of my library was available on Tidal only. So for yucks I checked Apple music, which is part of my Apple One subscription, and voila - all of the albums missing from Qobuz were available on Apple. So now my project is to compare Qobuz vs Apple Music lossless/hi res. If Apple has all of the music I want and the SQ is comparable to Qobuz, I can ditch Roon, Tidal and Qobuz and save several hundred $$ a year.

@treynolds155 I am unaware of any method to stream 192/24 wirelessly from your Apple device into a DAC. Tether your iDevice or Mac to your DAC via USB for sure, but not possible without a wired connection. Happy to be corrected.