Justin & Jerry's Hifi Blog

[User211]

All correct Sam. If something you liked disappears then buy it I reckon. Otherwise - live life on the edge

I use TIDAL purely because I used to use Spotify and found I was doing so much surfing for stuff I was constantly listening to sub-par quality on an ace system. No logic there.

[jandl100]

Yup yup - many here will know that I have been a diehard resister of streaming for ergonomic and sq reasons! But Tidal seems to be bringing it altogether, and along with cheap unlimited broadband, well, I was running out of excuses.

I'll let you know on this blog, Martin, how easy or otherwise getting it all going is.

So far I have streamed from Amazon Music, and that was easy peasy - it just kinda happened! Plugged the USB cable from PC to DAC in, pressed the play icon on the Amazon music album I had already clicked on and music issued forth! Whodathunk it would be that easy? Hopefully Tidal will repeat that experience. We'll see.

I take the point about future access - and the wife has insisted that I keep the CD collection so that if it all goes pear shaped with the streaming I can go back to the old ways. Wise lady, my wife.

[agk]

Jerry moving to streaming is like the ravens leaving the Tower...

It'll be a cold day in hell when I start that gubbins.

[struth]

It'll be a cold day in hell when I start that gubbins.

I'm all Pi'ed up

[jandl100]

Well, that was embarrassingly easy.

Signed up to Tidal.
Plugged my laptop into my DAC.
Played music.
Sorted.

Not at all, as yet, convinced by the Tidal music search function - but I dare say I'll suss it out.

[brian2957]

What are your initial impressions of SQ Jerry ?

[jandl100]

Very positive 1st impressions - but you have to live with things for a bit, don't you. I'm off out for the day soon, but will play again this eve.

Tidal's search function is crap, though!

And no Blues for Klook wtf use is that?
Tidal will def be a supplementary music source, even at 1st glance it can't replicate my full CD collection. But I guess it's growing all the time ...?

[brian2957]

Interesting . Thanks Jerry .

[User211]

Very positive 1st impressions - but you have to live with things for a bit, don't you. I'm off out for the day soon, but will play again this eve.

Tidal's search function is crap, though!

And no Blues for Klook wtf use is that?
Tidal will def be a supplementary music source, even at 1st glance it can't replicate my full CD collection. But I guess it's growing all the time ...?

Why is the search function crap? If you are using Internet Explorer - it is. It just doesn't work properly, and you don't get hi-fi SQ.

You are using Google's Chrome browser aren't you? That works just fine. The search is 53 quadzillion miles better than Qobuz's search last time I used it.

Also, none of these services are databases of everything, and none of them will get near to covering your CD collection. As I have said, concentrate on what they have, rather than what they haven't. It is about discovery more than anything else. The major ones all have databases in the multiple millions of tracks.

[jandl100]

Why is the search function crap? ....

First thing I do in Tidal is search "Shostakovich".
About 9 recordings turn up, I was expecting many hundreds. Crap, I thought, why have I signed up to this junk?
Pondering, I couldn't imagine it was actually that poorly populated - so I searched on "Shostakovich quartets" and about 30 recordings turned up!

Similar experiences on other classical things.
Must be very strangely indexed / linked -- you have to come at things quite deviously to find stuff.
But it's OK - I'll persevere.
There is some seriously good classical material on there, just have to keep on trying in order to find it!

And yep, using it thru Google Chrome