I think the impediment to other streaming services is more to do with integrating their UI with Roons
I currently use roon/tidal. If tidal go I just pay my monthly fee to someone else, and swap out roon for any other UPnP server. I would think the consequences for Roon of no ''in built'' streaming service will be very damaging.
I have been very happy with HiFi Tidal at £20 a month especially the 24bit stuff. Although this is packaged as MQA my Aries mini is not
just above the low tide mark?so as a user of tidal via Roon, where does the demise of tidal leave me?
I like Tidal
so as a user of tidal via Roon, where does the demise of tidal leave me?
My advice is get a Qobuz Sublime+ subscription and enjoy it for as long as it lasts. Wonderful. Wish i’d done it ages ago. Doesn’t matter if the interface isn’t super slick, doesn’t matter if the metadata is not exactly as you would wish, such issues soon become trivial when you have access to such a rich catalogue of recordings to stream, many in hires, many with the original sleeve notes, many with useful critical comments. Less than a quid a day.
For 30 quid a month I'd want a super slick interface, High resolution streaming as opposed to Flac and a platform widely supported.
That's Quobuz out the window. - Coming to think that's Tidal and Spotify gone too
Put the above together, and this could be the permanent end of streaming above CD bitrates. Now some people seem to think that there's no benefit to more, but I'm guessing that anyone with SACD, DSD, BD-audio and similar collections would disagree.
For 30 quid a month I'd want a super slick interface, High resolution streaming as opposed to Flac and a platform widely supported.
That's Quobuz out the window. - Coming to think that's Tidal and Spotify gone too
Pick a random 100 Spotify users from the street and ask if they have considered a portable dac. 99 of them will have no idea what you are talking about.I feel the everyday user will be looking for more, this is reflected in the healthy sale of portable DACs, I hope.
If the "hi-res" formats would die away, maybe the record companies would finally release the superior masters even in "standard" 44.1/16 format, and everybody could be happy - OK, except for Eric (the pet bat).