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In Reply to: RE: The debate is irrelevant today. In other words, who cares! posted by AbeCollins on December 20, 2024 at 17:28:57
...I tried Tidal for a week, decent selection, OK sound quality.
Cancelled the subscription and switched to Apple Music. To my ears at least, lossless streaming on Apple Music sounds better, at least using it with the phone and Air Pods.
It's free till March. Might switch to Qobuz before then just fer shits 'n' giggles.
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My only actual experience with hearing music from Apple was way back when you could download 128 Kbps then later 256 Kbps AAC music files from the iTunes store. AAC is lossy like MP3 but generally sounds a little better. I haven't 'streamed' anything from Apple but I will probably try them out at some point. I understand that they stream 'lossless' CD quality and higher these days.
To my ears Tidal and Qobuz are comparable in sound quality on my home system when played through Roon. And they both sound very good in the car.
Here's a thought on the various phone Apps for playing Tidal, Qobuz, Amazon Music, Apple Music, etc. Each of these has their own App and it is possible that some might be setup (adjusted) differently. I know that Apple's Music App has various EQ settings. Do the Tidal and Qobuz Apps have similar settings? I'm just throwing this possibility out there in case your App settings might have been different for Apple Music vs Tidal and others that you might try going forward.
To complicate matters there are 3rd party Apps that can tailor the sound across the board for whatever music App you are using.
...on Apple Music. Didn't check Tidal.
IIRC, Qobuz has three months free currently also. No reason why I can't do Apple and Qobuz.
Apple Music still doesn't sound as good as the few CDs I ripped into Apple Music (at AAC) and uploaded to the phone, but it could also be that the Air Pods sound better with the extra compression from AAC. Had an experience like that about 20 years ago, downloading mp3s from Audio Galaxy and playing them back on the PC with a set of Sennheiser headphones.
Played on the main system, those files didn't sound very good, but played on the PC, via headphones they sounded really nice.
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