Best/cheapest streaming service for CD quality sound

[Woodface]

I can't be the only one seeing the irony in using a £20/month "lossless" music subscription on a £100 dac that I see so often here.

Probably still more ‘accurate’ than vinyl

 

[Alex S]

Qobuz is particularly good for jazz and classical but has plenty of electronic, especially French since they’re French. I don’t really do favourites or playlists, just play albums, but the search function can be hit and miss. Stuff I know is there can take some finding.

 

[kernow]

TBF there's a lot of great french electronic
Hmm

 

[Heckyman]

One thing I love about Qobuz is that they don't delete your favourites if your membership lapses. With Apple Music, the minute you don't pay, pooof, all meta data gone and rejoining is like starting from scratch. Brutal efficiency.

 

[hifinutt]

I like spotify for its range of stuff , sounding pretty good today into a fairly decent dac (bc eix)

 

[raysablade]

A nice plus for Apple Music is synced lyrics.

Or as my other half likes to call it, karaoke

 

[Quadboy]

I’ve just taken a trial on Qobuz, app seems good & integrates with Innuos Zen.

I've tried to take the free trial for Qobuz but it won't let me enter my postcode to open my account, it just comes up with 4 lines for I presume a zip code ??

 

[Woodface]

I've tried to take the free trial for Qobuz but it won't let me enter my postcode to open my account, it just comes up with 4 lines for I presume a zip code ??

You get sent a pass code via email. It’s 4 digits.

I like it so far, seamless integration with Innuos Zen.

 

[Quadboy]

You get sent a pass code via email. It’s 4 digits.

I like it so far, seamless integration with Innuos Zen.

Ok thanks

 

[springer]

There's a 2-month free trial knocking around, found with a bit of googling. I'm a couple of weeks into mine

https://try.qobuz.com/redeem/

try.qobuz.com

 

[Woodface]

There's a 2-month free trial knocking around, found with a bit of googling. I'm a couple of weeks into mine

https://try.qobuz.com/redeem/

try.qobuz.com

Missed that. I think I will continue with it, makes a lot of sense financially & means I don’t have to clutter up the house with more formats.

 

[Jubal]

As a bit of fun, I signed up to that Qobuz offer. Back to back with Amazon Music I cannot tell the difference. Identical at CD and Ultra quality. Modest kit is WiiM mini into Audiolab 7000a and Alchris AR-6 speakers. Any streaming experts who can tell me where the weak link(s) is/are?

And yes, I’m running Qobuz from the WiiM app for best quality.

 

[mikemusic]

Just had a brief look at qobuz but cant find much decent berlin electronica on there sadly ..example being moonbooter one of the most famous groups .cant find it

I've spent the last few days playing the extensive collection they have of Jazzanova. Most enjoyable

 

[hifinutt]

Indeed , sadly have to pay 60 quid for cds as moonbooter not on any platforms i can see ..i guess they are clever by not putting on there !!

 

[Steven Toy]

Anything other than Qobuz, and I'm hunting for the CD.

 

[Steven Toy]

I can't be the only one seeing the irony in using a £20/month "lossless" music subscription on a £100 dac that I see so often here.

Or a more expensive DAC fed by a laptop plugged into a silicon SMPSU...

 

[kernow]

I use a pi4 with volumio and *gasp* the default PSU.

 

[Alex S]

Amateur

 

[AndyU]

£20 a month to a streaming service and a £100 DAC sounds to me a very sensible allocation of funds if you haven’t got much dosh. But you would need to be a music lover rather than a hifi victim.

 

[psi310398]

£20 a month to a streaming service and a £100 DAC sounds to me a very sensible allocation of funds if you haven’t got much dosh. But you would need to be a music lover rather than a hifi victim.

I am aware of at least one person who feeds his WiiM Pro Plus straight into a pair of eyewateringly expensive Meridian DSP speakers. That replaced a pi4 with a cheap dac hat.