Tidal Black Friday offer

[Niallivm]

Four months of Tidal HiFi for £1.99
Tidal Black Friday offer
Looks like Qobuz has missed the boat to lure those of us undecided on higher quality streaming services

 

[MMohammed]

I've heard good things about Tidal, and I am likely going to take advantage of this offer, but is there a remarkable difference between this and like Spotify or something? My first instinct is that the sound quality might better.

 

[tino]

Or 99p for standard non hifi quality 😉

 

[iMark]

At the moment I'm trying out Tidal with Black Friday offer. I have to say that I think it sounds a little bit better than Spotify with the classical music I have compared. However, I haven't been able to work out how to get Master Quality Audio through the stereo yet. Our Yamaha R-N602 had a firmware upgrade and Tidal can be selected through the MusicCast app on my iPhone. However, that streaming app only streams at CD quality. On my Mac I can listen to MQA files but I only have reasonable speakers connected and through AirPlay I can't stream higher bit rates than CD quality.

What I haven't tried yet is connecting the iPhone through the USB port of the Yamaha. I can listen to MQA files on my iPhone but I don't think my bluetooth Sennheiser earphones do justice to MQA files.

First impressions though are good. There are some interesting things you can read about the music on the iPhone app.

 

[Deleted member 2457]

Subscribed to Tidal HiFi last night so far the music seems to be clearer and stretched out if that makes sense. Decided with buying all my Blu-Ray audio discs and SACDs it was time to go for a high quality streaming service. Any thoughts on the music quality I have been experiencing? Thanks

 

[Deleted member 2457]

Don’t appear to louder though which is normally the case with higher quality music - any thoughts?

 

[Deleted member 108165]

Don’t appear to louder though which is normally the case with higher quality music - any thoughts?

Louder? Louder normally means that it's been compressed to hell and back leaving very little dynamic range... see loudness wars. I normally associate loudness with poor quality mastering or remastering and avoid at all costs.

 

[Deleted member 2457]

Louder? Louder normally means that it's been compressed to hell and back leaving very little dynamic range... see loudness wars. I normally associate loudness with poor quality mastering or remastering and avoid at all costs.

Okay thanks. I didn’t know what to make of it so I am doing my trail period only I have already cancelled my £20 monthly subscription though.

 

[Niallivm]

Different streaming services do appear to have different volume levels. I found Amazon and Deezer to be a higher volume than Apple Music and Tidal slightly quieter. I don’t think it necessarily relates to compression levels

 

[Deleted member 2457]

Different streaming services do appear to have different volume levels. I found Amazon and Deezer to be a higher volume than Apple Music and Tidal slightly quieter. I don’t think it necessarily relates to compression levels

Yes, I have found that too.