Bear in mind that you don't have to use MQA with Tidal, if you have gear that doesn't support it, the track plays as regular lossless/hi-res. I don't care about MQA, the music sounds good but it also sounds good as standard lossless/hi-res. They all sound good, their may be a minuscule difference but your headphones make by far the biggest difference. Take the free trial offers, I suggest choosing based on the music they have, price and ability to save to play offline. I switched from Qobuz a while ago because at the time they didn't have enough of the particular music I wanted though, they have a great selection. I've used Qobuz, Deezer, Apple Music and currently use Tidal.
That's basically why I like porta pros - they're not very resolving so I'm unlikely to hear enough details to notice any compression artifacts :D In most cases when listening for drums specifically in a rock music I am able to notice compression artifacts when cymbals start sounding like there are sand in them, and my problem is that once I notice that I cannot enjoy the music the way I was. In those cases the difference might be more apparent.įor example I play(-ed) drums and mostly listen to garage or rock of any kind, and those genres and drums in particular are the hardest task for compression because drums are the lowest frequencies (bass drum) and highest frequencies (cymbals) and those two spots are particularly troublesome for most lossy compression algorithms. It is also important to mention that music genres does matters as well as if you play any musical instruments on the regular basis. What makes the people here choose a high res streaming service over Spotify and the like?Īudio compression algorithm was engineered for exactly this reason, so no wonder that most people cannot tell the difference. So after seeing some posts here were a lot of other audiophiles were not able to actually tell the difference between these services. When I switched to my K712 Headphones it became even more difficult and everything "below" that was completly indistinguishable. There were times where I thought that Tidal was sounding a bit smoother and more rich than the other two, but apart from that I was not able to tell them apart. Now that I have tested all three of these I can very confidently state that I would not be able to recognize either of them in a blind test. Having a CD collection but mostly listening over Spotify nowadays I wanted to see if MQA or lossless would deliver the upgrade I was after. Thats why I sought to upgrade my source material. Having compared my headphones to the Hifiman Edition XS, the focal Clear mg as well as the Meze Empyrean it was clear that for the most part the difference in the recording quality actually was the biggest thing which made a track enjoyable or not. So after two years of owning my trusty K812 I realized that for the most part it was the quality of the recording that actually mattered when it came to audioquality.
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