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My CD player is a Pioneer LD/CD player from the late 80s or early 90s, but it sounds great, using World’s Best RCA cables into the Singxer preamp. I’m using Aptx Classic out of an old Samsung View, into an iFi Zen Blue V2, balanced into a Singxer SA1, balanced into an Avantone CLA 200, powering Tannoy XT8F through Anticable 3.1 speaker wire & matching jumpers.
#TIDAL VS SPOTIFY UPGRADE#
Given that, I feel no need to upgrade to any HD streaming service. There is absolutely no audible difference on my sysyem between Spotify & a CD playing the same song simultaneously while toggling back & forth between them on my preamp’s input switch. I have not heard Qobuz, and Qobuz just vanished from the list of supported apps inside HEOS…
#TIDAL VS SPOTIFY ANDROID#
Playing Tidal through UAP Pro on android is a good experience. I mainly just use Tidal for FLAC, and it caused me to drop Spotify, on top of the other nonsense with Spotify. I understand it means 1) highest res audio that Tidal can offer and 2) original recordings will sometimes not sound the way you expect, bitrates and sample frequencies aside. I dont assume “Tidal Master” means super high fi. I also understand how a good number of those ‘Tidal Masters’ are unique recordings - masters - and WILL sound different than other hires versions of the same songs. I honestly cannot detect a huge difference between Tidal FLAC and Tidal MQA, and I do understand the state of the controversy with MQA, etc. Im not talking about Tidal MQA/masters, just in general with FLAC This is of course just loudness, but on top of loudness my ears can clearly hear a better upper frequency response, tighter overall, and those more “ringing” highs. And this happens on all systems, from lofi to hifi.ĭigital volume or hardware volume knobs must be turned down about 10-15% when I play Tidal, vs Spotify, on the car system, headphone amp on the Marantz, hip-dac2 on my mobile devices, and the poor quality DAC (Focusrite 8i6 gen3) on my PC.
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Not much difference between Tidal & FLAC files or uncompressed WAV files in loudness or anything else. Ive spent 10,000s of hours playing music(often the same music) in Spotify, Pandora, etc, and before that Foobar2000 and Winamp for local high bitrate (320k or better) compressed audio, and immediately Tidal is louder and clearer than Spotify - VOLUME NORMALIZATION OFF. I also stream in my car via bluetooth, which has a basic stock stereo/speakers. I use Beyerdynamic dt1990 headphones, my wife’s dt770s, Klipsch x10i earbuds, and soon my MiM Dark Magician IEM (when they arrive.)
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I use Klipsch rp-8000f speakers driven by a Marantz model 30 amp. The built-in HEOS system hosts the streaming apps and accesses network file shares. UAP Pro has very robust user configuration options for tweaking android hires drivers, verifying bit-perfect mode, verifying DAC playback, etc.įor non-mobile, I use the DAC (MMM) in my Marantz SACD 30n to playback files and streams. I use the iFi hip-dac2 for mobile devices and I only stream with USB Audio Player Pro, which is a front-end + engine for streaming apps, local files, etc, and displays details about what sort of file is being played.
#TIDAL VS SPOTIFY PC#
I rarely use a laptop or PC for any of this, other than hosting. I host my own 24bit/192khz/etc hires files, as well as stream & play SACDs on my Marantz. I dont do youtube audio, or amazon, and I dont use Apple but have tried iTunes hires. Tidal customer since 2018(volume normalization OFF, or it will mess with your experience.) Spotify customer since 2011 (just canceled). I have extensive experience with many audio / video streaming apps on a few different hardware systems. Tidal and Spotify come at a special discount for €5 per month. Tidal and Spotify with their podcasts and content back on top. I find more specific playlists created, I find it easier to find songs and I find it more convenient. This is perhaps one of the reasons I chose to stay on Spotify. For my varied tastes I have everything I’m looking for on Spotify and tidal. tidal in hifi without normalising sound so similar to me, if not the same when listening critically, that I can’t even imagine what they will sound like if I play music just to leave it in the background. Spotify in maximum quality without normalising vs. Sometimes one platform sounds better to me, sometimes another. Now we have millions of songs in the palm of our hand. I’ve realised that fuck…not so long ago, 6 years ago you had to buy albums one by one. In the end I have made the decision to keep Spotify premium.