Differences in YouTube, Spotify, etc.

Qobuz and Amazon here Spotify sounds pretty bad to me I don't stream Youtube or watch music videos very often.

Tidal and Qobuz...agree Spotify is poor audio quality, but great for exploring new music...

Qobuz, because it sounds best.

My ranking of streaming service sound quality 

(as of November 2020)

1. Qobuz

2. Primephonic - now acquired by Apple

3. Spotify Premium (320 kbps Ogg Vorbis which is not lossless) - sounds surprisingly decent to me. It's shortcomings are error of omission rather than error of commission

4. IDAGIO

5. Amazon HD

6 Tidal

i use Qobuz and Tidal equally, usually one sounds better than the other and sometimes one will have the music I’m looking for while the other does not. Tidal’s MQA titles can be hit or miss but sometimes it’s just fantastic!

Also use Spotify Premium which tends to have everything I’m looking to play and has great playlists for background music, especially jazz. The sound quality is generally more than adequate and hi-rez is (supposedly) in its future.

I’m using Amazon HD and Qobuz.. Tidal never did it for me.