Tidal Sound Quality

[kumakuma]

42 minutes ago, sandyk said:

Streaming will never sound quite as good as a high quality local rip, even with the exact same source material.

This will be obvious to most with a half decent set up using JRiver 26 for example.

 

I used to believe this as well... until I actually tested it myself.

[kumakuma]

1 hour ago, sandyk said:

I should have qualified this by adding streaming from  Tidal over Qobuz, but we were talking about Tidal and

Quobuz, not local streaming

 Neither does it surprise me that you are unable to hear the kind of differences that are blindingly obvious to members other than those who post almost exclusively in the General area of the forum, which is the area where the closed minded sceptics like yourself mainly congregate, instead of areas like Rajiv's massive thread where they invariably use far better equipment than you use.

 Note that Chris, for example, realises the need for vastly improved mains power in a 60HZ 117 VAC country , and other things such as the need to better match signal levels without the need for excessive attenuation !

 

Have you actually tested streaming services versus locally stored files?

[kumakuma]

@The Computer Audiophile

 

I think this thread should be moved to Objective sub-forum. Please delete @sandyk posts as they are not based on any first hand experience with Tidal or any other paid services.