Tidal - what a load of rubbish

[jandl100]

Well only about 3 came up on a search for Bach Cantatas or for Suzuki

31 come up on Spotify for the search "bach cantata suzuki".
Others might be available with different search criteria - that metadata, eh!

[Gazjam]

Tidal Hifi suscriber here.

You can tell the increase in sound quality over Spotify and I find Tidal playlists excellent.
You can also access 75,000 music videos as well, which is cool.
For music I run Tidal through Roon into the Transporter, or through the bluray player to watch HD music videos, both with at least 16/44 quality played through my Dac.
Dont have an MQA compatible Dac but the MQA "Master" versions of albums do sound better than 16/44.

I think Tidals great personally and the way it integrates with your own music library in Roon is superb.

More expensive than Spotify, but at a fiver a week it's good value in my book.

[Ammonite Audio]

Tom

Not sure if the highlighted text relates to Itunes or JRiver? If JRiver then most definitely a user can change the sampling or not. The default is 'no change' but can be changed to anything one wants (subject to the DAC accepting the sample rate). Look in Tools under DSP and audio output functions.

Just to clarify - from JRiver MC19 onwards, you can still select different output sampling rates, but the option to select 'source bit depth' disappeared. For me, that change brought in a superficially 'smoother' and 'nicer' sound character but robbed the music of meaning and flow. Many geeks will no doubt tell me that re-quantisation is totally transparent, but I can hear the effect and I don't like it. Luckily, MC17 works a treat and I still have full control over all aspects of output format; and leaving absolutely every additional DSP option switched off works best (for me, of course). I use a Mutec MC-3 +USB between my music laptop and DAC, and with that I've even found that 'kernel streaming' sounds way better than WASAP/WASAPI Event Style/ASIO etc. Everyone else's mileage may vary and as long as everyone is happy with their solutions, that's all that matters.

[jonners]

Well only about 3 came up on a search for Bach Cantatas or for Suzuki

I searched again for 'Bach Cantatas Suzuki' on the Qobuz web-based player and clicked on 'See all albums'. This time I counted them and there were 60 volumes available!

[struth]

with Bach Cantatas, I got bored counting after 400 on Spotify