Popular Post left channel Posted October 16, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted October 16, 2018 6 hours ago, Taz777 said: I'm about to sign up to TIDAL HiFi. In terms of using TIDAL HiFi with a computer-based audio system, is the audio quality good enough? I keep reading stories of TIDAL going under (even from 2017!) and how MQA isn't all it's cracked up to be. At the end of the day, if the music sounds at least as good as, or better than, CD-quality, and is recorded well enough, then does any of this really matter? According to a recent study, many people cannot hear the difference between a good 320k MP3 track and the same track in CD quality. In that case Masters won't matter, regardless of all the arguments for or against. Tidal HiFi does sound better to me, and most Hi-Res or MQA Masters sound even better, but not always. Because not everything deserves to be released in those formats. Last night Tidal got stuck in buffering mode while I was using a CD-quality track to test some new headphones here, so I switched to Qobuz and found the same album in a new Hi-Res release. That was nice. But as usual I was happy enough with the Radio Paradise FLAC streams for most of the evening. To me the RP streams sound so much better than most other internet radio. The only low-resolution streaming I can handle is electronica. Because, well, electronica. As for Tidal's future, who knows? All the streaming services seem to be losing money "chasing ears" the way websites used to chase eyeballs during the dot-com boom. But Qobuz seems to have the right idea: charge more for Hi-Res. Because many people cannot hear the difference ...and many more just don't care. daverich4, Don Blas De Lezo and Taz777 3 Everyone wants to date my avatar. Link to comment
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