Educate me please , Who has a quality dac / streeming setup ?

[Clive197]

I use Tidal. Tried Qobuz on a free trial but had nothing but problems, not able to listen to complete tracks or just low res. A complete waste of time.

[mightymonoped]

I use Tidal. Tried Qobuz on a free trial but had nothing but problems, not able to listen to complete tracks or low res. A complete waste of time.

I'm currently running a trial Tidal account and have been very impressed with the sound quality, choice and interface. Streets ahead of Qobuz.

[Edward]

If you guys like Tidal you will love Roon with Tidal playing through it.

[Frazeur1]

I have not yet tried Roon, and I am curious what Roon “does” to Tidal, or how is the Sonics improved upon or enhanced via Roon?

[Yomanze]

I have not yet tried Roon, and I am curious what Roon “does” to Tidal, or how is the Sonics improved upon or enhanced via Roon?

Roon is properly configured out of the box, other software and driver combinations may not be.

[Theadmans]

I use Tidal. Tried Qobuz on a free trial but had nothing but problems, not able to listen to complete tracks or just low res. A complete waste of time.

I tried a free trial of Tidal followed by a free trial of Qobuz.

Using the available plugins for my Raspberry Pi running SqueezeLite (an SBT clone) I had no end of problems with Tidal.

Switching to Qobuz the plugin worked flawlessly with my Pi and the Orange Squeeze Android app. So I took a subscription out for Qobuz Hi-FI instead of Tidal. The plugin for Qobuz works really well with my Pi which feeds into my Creek 50CD CD Player / Dac via a Chord Digital Co-ax lead.

Mind you every time I have tried the Qobuz Desktop App on my PC I have had problems (maybe this is what you are referring to). But for me the most important think is that the plugin for my Pi on my main system works - so that is why I went for Qobuz.

[Gazjam]

If you guys like Tidal you will love Roon with Tidal playing through it.

Indeedy, its superb.
Sorts Tidal albums/tracks same way it does your own local library, making one big music magazine to play music from.

[User211]

Al

I just connect my laptop to my DAC with a USB cable and pay a sub to a decent streaming service (I use Qobuz 16/44 at the moment).
It equals or beats my CDP, which I rate highly.
Justin User211 does this as well (only he used Tidal streaming) and he is a very fussy bugger when it comes to sq.
Imho you don't need all these fancy boxes and software, or the cost associated with them.

Cancel your sub to Amazon Music, it sounds crap.

I'm recently using BubbleUPnP to access TIDAL on my OnePlus 6 and streaming it to my TV, and using the TV's optical out to the Lampizator. This is lossless.

The phone has a quarter of a terrabyte of storage and I have a lot of FLAC CD rips on it too.

I have a crazy belief this sounds better than the wired link from my laptop. Whether that is true I don't know but it seems that way.

I also switch the whole system on and off via a wi-fi plug connected to my mains regenerator.

Phones are getting seriously good, really.

[Edward]

I'm recently using BubbleUPnP to access TIDAL on my OnePlus 6 and streaming it to my TV, and using the TV's optical out to the Lampizator. This is lossless.

The phone has a quarter of a terrabyte of storage and I have a lot of FLAC CD rips on it too.

I have a crazy belief this sounds better than the wired link from my laptop. Whether that is true I don't know but it seems that way.

I also switch the whole system on and off via a wi-fi plug connected to my mains regenerator.

Phones are getting seriously good, really.

Very interesting Justin

How is the jump from your oneplus to your TV accomplished? Wifi, bluetooth or some other way? Trying to understand how lossless being retained.

In what way is wireless from your 'phone 'better' compared to the wired link from your laptop? Seems counter-intuitive. What is the link on your laptop? USB?

Is your wifi plug one of these? Trying to suss out how much amperage such a thing can cope with?

[User211]

Very interesting Justin

How is the jump from your oneplus to your TV accomplished? Wifi, bluetooth or some other way? Trying to understand how lossless being retained.

In what way is wireless from your 'phone 'better' compared to the wired link from your laptop? Seems counter-intuitive. What is the link on your laptop? USB?

Is your wifi plug one of these? Trying to suss out how much amperage such a thing can cope with?

Wi-Fi plug is a Kasa. I have three of them. The other two do the telly and coffee machine. I am not aware of any wi-fi plug power output limitations.

UPnP is a protocol most modern televisions understand. The streaming is via my home wi-fi from phone to telly.

When I play tracks the telly shows which track is playing. The telly is set to output via optical (no other option actually).

My laptop is wired to the telly via HDMI. Same optical out from the telly when using this link. I actually think it sounds better than the USB direct from laptop to DAC, which is why I don't use the USB.

All connection methods have only a very marginal difference in SQ.

BTW you can use the TIDAL mobile app or BubbleUPnP's interface to TIDAL streams to play tracks. They both have great interfaces, but it is easier to use BubbleUPnP, as it takes more steps to play something via the TIDAL ap.

I use BubbleUPnP with three of my 4 TVs. So something similar works in my 2nd hi-fi system.

I can turn on a play music in my main listening room from anywhere in the house without going in there. Cool. And all for f all cost, really.