Tidal vs spotify more songs12/8/2023 Not much difference between Tidal & FLAC files or uncompressed WAV files in loudness or anything else. ![]() Ive spent 10,000s of hours playing music(often the same music) in Spotify, Pandora, etc, and before that Foobar2000 and Winamp for local high bitrate (320k or better) compressed audio, and immediately Tidal is louder and clearer than Spotify - VOLUME NORMALIZATION OFF. I also stream in my car via bluetooth, which has a basic stock stereo/speakers. ![]() I use Beyerdynamic dt1990 headphones, my wife’s dt770s, Klipsch x10i earbuds, and soon my MiM Dark Magician IEM (when they arrive.) I use Klipsch rp-8000f speakers driven by a Marantz model 30 amp. The built-in HEOS system hosts the streaming apps and accesses network file shares. UAP Pro has very robust user configuration options for tweaking android hires drivers, verifying bit-perfect mode, verifying DAC playback, etc.įor non-mobile, I use the DAC (MMM) in my Marantz SACD 30n to playback files and streams. I use the iFi hip-dac2 for mobile devices and I only stream with USB Audio Player Pro, which is a front-end + engine for streaming apps, local files, etc, and displays details about what sort of file is being played. I rarely use a laptop or PC for any of this, other than hosting. I host my own 24bit/192khz/etc hires files, as well as stream & play SACDs on my Marantz. I dont do youtube audio, or amazon, and I dont use Apple but have tried iTunes hires. Tidal customer since 2018(volume normalization OFF, or it will mess with your experience.) Spotify customer since 2011 (just canceled). I have extensive experience with many audio / video streaming apps on a few different hardware systems. Tidal and Spotify come at a special discount for €5 per month. Tidal and Spotify with their podcasts and content back on top. I find more specific playlists created, I find it easier to find songs and I find it more convenient. This is perhaps one of the reasons I chose to stay on Spotify. For my varied tastes I have everything I’m looking for on Spotify and tidal. tidal in hifi without normalising sound so similar to me, if not the same when listening critically, that I can’t even imagine what they will sound like if I play music just to leave it in the background. ![]() Spotify in maximum quality without normalising vs. Sometimes one platform sounds better to me, sometimes another. Now we have millions of songs in the palm of our hand. I’ve realised that fuck…not so long ago, 6 years ago you had to buy albums one by one. In the end I have made the decision to keep Spotify premium.
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