200 jazz albums in hires at discounted prices on Qobuz

[Musicophile]

Just received a newsletter from Qobuz, apparently they currently have around 200 hires albums as special offer for about 2 weeks.

 

I checked out their site, they are rather well hidden, the only way you can identify is by the Price tag being highlighted in red. I saw several quite nice albums at 11.99 or 13.99, wil check out in more detail later.

[alcarp]

This site's normal prices for hi-res stuff seems to be a lot more expensive than HDTRACKS. Is there a quality difference that explains this?

[firedog]

Probably the explanation is that they are in Europe, where things are generally more expensive.

[AudioBear]

I think it is just the Sales Tax, or Value Added Tax (VAT) as it is called. I think the French are 19.6%.

But Qobuz do have some great time limited special offers, I bought the latest Gardot (24/96) at €14.99 or £12/$19ish. HDTracks is $17.98 or so.

 

Bob Marley - Legend 24/96

HDTracks - $19.98 / €15.74 / £12.73

Qobuz (I bought at @) €13.99 / $17.76 / £11.32

Linn are £18.00 / $28.25 / €22.246 (very expensive!)

 

Another nice special offer example at the moment:

Duende (with Nitai Hershkovits) by Avishai Cohen (24 bits / 96.0 kHz - Stereo )

Qobuz €9.99 (£8.08 / $ 12.68 ish)

 

Just keep your eyes open for the bargains and pounce. Their mailing list is quite good or use the filter on the search for special offers. It seems to be a much more professional site than HDtracks and you can actually search properly ;-)

(OK I know you need a VPN or some such and a smattering of French... but it is much cheaper than Linn!)

[Musicophile]

Well, first of all, most of the HDTracks content is unavailable in Europe. When compared to other European sites like Hiresaudio, they are actually usually a bit cheaper. Unfortunately, due to the old fashioned licensing practices we still really don't have a Global market for audio files.

 

Anyhow, their special offers are often significantly reduced, like eg the recently discussed Mahler Tilson Thomas recordings that were available for some time at €7 vs €22 regular price. That's why I flagged the current special offer here, I have no affiliation or any other commercial interest in Qobuz. I'm personally unwilling to spend more than €15 on a hires album.