While that may be fine for the average listener, it leaves out more serious listeners who demand nothing less than high-resolution audio. I tend to listen to albums versus playlists or individual songs, and Apple does a much better job of categorizing your saved albums.Since the introduction of music streaming, services have only offered audio in CD-quality resolution in fact, some don’t even come that close. That said, I actually like the Apple Music app much better than those of Tidal or Qobuz. I tried it a few times and thought "meh." But, again, I haven’t spent a lot of time doing comparisons. Although Airplay is limited to 16/44, my initial impression is that Airplay didn’t sound as good as my CD player or dedicated streamer. I have tried Apple Music via Airplay to my main system. ![]() But, I admit, I don’t really spend any time doing back-to-back comparisons. Through headphones (AQ Nighthawks or Grado 325e and either AQ Dragonfly or iFi DACs) I really cannot discern much of a sound quality difference between all three. I stream Tidal and Qobuz on my home systems, but also have access to Apple Music through my cell phone plan. I guess you can stream it from a computer or iPad to your system, but some would argue those methods to be inferior to a dedicated streamer. In that regard, there are few streaming environments where you can directly compare Apple Lossless and Qobuz. Quite a stretch from my old classic rock and indie rock origins, but a vast and eclectic service like Qobuz exposes me to so much diverse music, it's really mind-blowing in the best way!Īs others have pointed out, you can’t get Apple Music on any streaming devices, except maybe the Sonos Port (which is limited to 24/48). This one happens to be "only" 44.1/16 resolution, but it's very well recorded in most cases. This post was typed while listening to Volume 6 of An Anthology of Chinese Traditional and Folk Music: A Collection of Music Played on the Guqin. Qobuz is the best for me, with by far the best sound quality I've ever heard from a streaming service, and once they get their version of "spotify-connect" technology rolled out, they will be even better and easier to use! Likewise with The Weekly Q compilation, which has introduced me to quite a few new favorite albums and artists. I agree I have made this a weekly Friday ritual to check out all the new releases, add the most interesting ones as favorites and then spend the weekend getting introduced to new music and artists I've not heard before, some of whom I add to my favorites as well. And, they also have a "best sellers" category along with some nicely curated playlists. I've come across some great finds using this. You can look at all new music that's been recently released or limit it by genre. I probably listen to an old favorite of mine once a wrote:īesides sound quality, I really like Qobuz's new music feature which is updated every Friday. My on-line library… must be 8K albums and growing daily. Most of my life I was forced to listen to the same stuff over and over because purchase was the only way to fill my life with the music I like. So, to me, with a different medium comes a whole different paradigm. ![]() Occationally there will be an album I own that is not there… so what? (to me) I move on, if I listen to a dozen new albums a day I will still die long before catching up. I’ll check them out… new releases (many new high Rez releases of older jazz and classical as well as new new of every category. ![]() Now I explore mostly… albums in the back of Stereophile, The Absolute Sound, recommended on Audiogon, Qobuz recommendations… new music added. Streaming has hundreds of times more music than I own or know about. Over a relatively short time I switched from listening to the music I had already purchased (I own 4,000 albums)… to exploring new music. Ocationally it was not there… but often there were more albums by the same artist. ![]() When I first got a steamer which sounded as good as my other sources I typically did what I have done for the last fifty years… searched my memory for an album on the streaming service and play it.
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