#Tidal vs qobuz trial
#Tidal vs qobuz Offline

An excellent audio quality service with a stable app, chasing a market that is most likely unappreciative of it. For example, according to Tidal, all four of its Karajan Beethoven symphony cycles, within its library, are his 1963 cycle - despite the fact they clearly are not. And once you find them, Tidal gives you very little information about them, apart from track information, performers and brief review (Sadly it is not so good at telling you which recording you are listening to if you find, for example, a conductor who has recorded a cycle more than once.

Other music, especially Classical, is of course well represented on Tidal but you have to know what you are looking for in advance, especially what albums. Most 'lossless' quality sales are in Classical, Jazz, Classica Rock, Metal and experimental music (Pop, Rap, ECM or otherwise). Worse, online sales and indeed piracy, tell us that most people that listen to this type of music are happy to do so in MP3. Or indeed, pop music that has not reached the USA The trouble, if that is the word, is that these areas are already covered so well by Spotify. This represents how good Tidal is at highlighting and attempting to funnel you to the most popular of popular, American, contemporary pop music while doing a much poorer job with Classical, Jazz, or experimental R&B, ECM or Rap. Apart from this, the main landing page recommends 5 different Michael Jackson playlists, one of Jean-Michel Jarre, one of Kanye West and the American Billboard 100. A classic modern pop song in my opinion.If that doesn't appear on the soundtrack of the next GTA game I will eat my copy of Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung) As another aside, we have reached an odd place in popular music where the only people singing live at a concert are the audience. Let's move to the next' And so a highly appreciative audience is now singing along with her, while she clearly mimes something else from her new |CD (By the way, the opening track'Ganaja Burns' is the only good track on her new album. The performer on the 'Rock and Liberty stage (there are three different stages) has just stopped the audio track of her (I have come in late and it doesn't indicate, but I am certain it is Niki Minaj) 'live' performance', telling her technical crew 'I'm feeling too sexy for this one. As I type, Tidal's front page is trying to point me to its live stream of Made In America 2018.

Tidal seems a Hifi service in search of an audience that may not need it. If you want to playback in a web browser or in Linux, then you can only do so at a maximum CD quality stream.

Because they use MQA, and because MQA needs a decoder at your side to play the tracks, this master quality is only available in the Tidal App. There is, however, something that needs to be taken into account with Tidal's 'Master' quality recordings. Yes, it does give you the opportunity for significant discounts when buying studio master quality recordings but so does its more affordable annual subscription of 219.99 (which is also cheaper than the monthly cost of 19,99). Qobuz also offers this but at what we consider an excessive annual only cost of 349. Tidal does have an advantage here, in that it offers to stream at greater than CD quality - studio master quality if you will - and this is included at the monthly price of 19.99.

#Tidal vs qobuz trial

As to which one you might prefer is a matter of personal choice but as both offer a month's free trial this would be easy to decide. While both are very good we noted a difference in that Tidal seemed to favour mids and highs while Qobuz seems to favour a more rounded, warmer sound stage natively (any of this can be changed to some degree with a graphic equaliser of course).

#Tidal vs qobuz Offline

Both services offer streaming and offline playback in lossless format and both at the same monthly cost.