Qobuz New Subscriptions

[zippy]

Just had an email from Qobuz with an offer to upgrade my 'hifi/cd' subscription to Studio Premiere for £149.99.
They will refund the months remaining on the current subscription.
As far as I can see that's a no-brainer, I'll be getting higher res for less money.

My only minor reservation is that when I've tried hi-res recordings I have sometimes found them a little harsher than CD quality, but I've just taken up the offer anyway with fingers crossed.
I do note on the Qobuz confirmation that I cannot cancel this new subscription until my year is up.

 

[Whaleblue]

I’ve just bumped up to that as well - I had been on the base MP3 subscription for £100 a year (I buy the CDs I really like).

£149 annually for CD/HiRes is a no brainier though. Let’s hope they’re stable enough to last that long, and keep that offer rolling.

 

[Alex S]

Great news - peeps please support Qobuz so they can survive in Apple/Amazon world.

 

[Felty99]

The US equivalent version is still much cheaper @ $150pa, so £9 a month.

 

[JensenHealey]

Quboz have emailed me saying that the Monthly sub is going up to 14.99 but for that I get the hires version. So far I have avoided running so called hi-res - it will be interesting to see what I think. But as HFN & RR point out in their reviews - many so called hires recordings are nothing of the sort - a lot are just upsampled old files. For a home user like me, how on earth can we tell that a particular file is a genuine hires?

 

[Wolfmancatsup]

I'm signing up for our fourth year...

 

[Manimal]

Just got my trial month. Never used Qobuz. Just using my phone into a Chromecast and out to the system. Sounds good. Discovering Agnes Obel at the moment. Very pleased.

 

[Whaleblue]

Anyone else upgrading an existing account, and using Roon - there’s a minor bug. In order to select the HiRes streaming option, you’ll need to sign out and back in (otherwise it’ll only offer MP3/CD options).

 

[rod ayling]

Sublime plus has been offered at £249.99.

Still a bit pricey. I guess i need to obtain all those downloads i require and then drop down a level.

 

[Andrew C!]

Anyone else upgrading an existing account, and using Roon - there’s a minor bug. In order to select the HiRes streaming option, you’ll need to sign out and back in (otherwise it’ll only offer MP3/CD options).

Thanks for the heads-up. I've just done this, with no issues. Now have the full hi-res option available to me, so I'll have a proper listen this evening.

 

[Lowand]

Cancelled my Qobuz subscription on the 16th! ..... then received the notification regarding the new pricing so have cancelled my new Tidal subscription and cancelled my cancellation with Qobuz ..... I think!

 

[zippy]

Thanks for the heads-up. I've just done this, with no issues. Now have the full hi-res option available to me, so I'll have a proper listen this evening.

That's something to watch for - on Bubble UPnP I was also getting only CD quality at first until I realised I had to go into the Qobuz\settings menu and manually change to hi-res.