£10k System Streaming Spotify

[tackleberry]

I’ve got Spotify and qobuz. Horses and courses

 

[Olie]

If you want there to carry on being new music to listen to on your 10k hifi - go for a different streaming option than Spotify. They completely rip artists off, pay much worse than alternatives like Tidal and Presto, and are now introducing a new system where tracks that reach below a certain threshold of plays will get zero royalties

 

[ChemMan]

Premium is a better-quality compressed format (320 kps) and free Spotify is even worse. Let's assume it is Premium, it costs £10.99/month; Qobuz is £12.99 for CD and provides up to 24/192. Why bother with a worse format for a few £/month?

There is not much need for this thread to go on any longer. The above is fact.

Certainly use free Spotify to suss out new music, but if you are serious about music and your main source is streaming I can't find any argument that would sway me to use Spotify. I can accept they have the best UI. But what's more important, the quality of the sound coming from the thousands of monetary units and time you poured into your system to get the best sound, or a user interface?

Come on folks, I'm going for a beverage.

 

[grommeteer]

There is not much need for this thread to go on any longer. The above is fact.

Certainly use free Spotify to suss out new music, but if you are serious about music and your main source is streaming I can't find any argument that would sway me to use Spotify. I can accept they have the best UI. But what's more important, the quality of the sound coming from the thousands of monetary units and time your poured into your system to get the best sound or a user interface?

Come on folks, I'm going for a beverage.

I learned to hate my system for the user interface it has.

 

[ChemMan]

I learned to hate my system for the user interface it has.

Abend. But how does it sound? Good, right?

In all seriousness though. Linn's UI, while not great, is certainly quality enough to access the streaming giants and use the search function. Hate is a strong word.

 

[JANDL100]

... if you are serious about music and your main source is streaming I can't find any argument that would sway me to use Spotify.

Well.... if it's really all about the music, then in my experience Spotify wins as it has the best music catalogue.

It doesn't matter if you have the best audio system in the world if the music you want to play on it isn't there.

 

[Juancho]

Well.... if it's really all about the music, then in my experience Spotify wins as it has the best music catalogue.

It doesn't matter if you have the best audio system in the world if the music you want to play on it isn't there.

Folk keep saying this but mor my taste-jazz, classical, rock, reggae, fusion-if it's not on Qobuz it's not an any other streaming service.

The question was well-answered above: why compromise sound quality for the same price (if you take out Qobuz annual subscription)?

 

[JANDL100]

Folk keep saying this but mor my taste-jazz, classical, rock, reggae, fusion-if it's not on Qobuz it's not an any other streaming

That simply is not so.

This afternoon I read a positive review of this album, so I tried to find it on a streaming service.



It's not on PrestoMusic or Qobuz as far as I can see.
I've been playing it on Spotify, though.

 

[ChemMan]

It doesn't matter if you have the best audio system in the world if the music you want to play on it isn't there.

Hard to argue with that.

 

[tackleberry]

There is quite a bit I’ve tried to find on qobuz, not there.

 

[StingRay]

From my own experience, the sound quality obtained from streaming can be excellent. However, I'm not sure Spotify would give the best quality as it's only cd quality, nothing of higher resolution. I've used Spotify, Tidal and Qobuz and I found Qobuz to be the best and now pay for 12 months at a time, to get the cheapest monthly rate.

Spotify is not even cd quality. I agree Qobuz is the best.

 

[Heckyman]

This afternoon I read a positive review of this album, so I tried to find it on a streaming service.



It's not on PrestoMusic or Qobuz as far as I can see.
I've been playing it on Spotify, though.

It’s on Apple Music Classical, too.

 

[StingRay]

Well.... if it's really all about the music, then in my experience Spotify wins as it has the best music catalogue.

It doesn't matter if you have the best audio system in the world if the music you want to play on it isn't there.

I don't agree, I find Deezer and Tidal to be similar catalogue and sound better for less money. But I'm going back to Qobuz because not interested in a lot of modern music. You can stick your Rap and R&B, Qobuz is far better for some genres. Spotify have been promising cd quality for years and still nothing.

 

[Nestor Turton]

Ageism is a thing

I don’t think a young audience who appreciate high fidelity and great music would be happy with Spotify. No ageism involved simply my assumption regarding Spotify’s target audience. Who would you say were Spotify’s target audience? it’s definitely not me.

 

[JANDL100]

It’s on Apple Music Classical, too.

Not only Spotify, then.

It's why I decided to subscribe to two services.
Prime use is PrestoMusic (which has currently unbeaten search and cross-reference facilities for classical music) and Spotify to fill in the gaps in the PrestoMusic catalogue.
Personally I find Spotify listenable. Ymmv.

 

[Vinylistas]

I use both Tidal and Qobuz for streaming. My streamer is Auralic G2 Vega. To my ears Tidal sounds better, however my newly aquired almost vintage Reimyo CD player kills both Tidal and Qobuz for sound quality. Glad I kept my cd collection.

 

[Gizza]

Spotify is not even cd quality. I agree Qobuz is the best.

I thought they had increased the quality but it seems not.

 

[t1no]

I don’t think anyone invests 10K on a system just to play Spotify … you would probably spend that kind of money to achieve the best digital or vinyl performance you could for that price. Adding Spotify would just be just a bonus.

If I only intended to listen to Spotify I would invest in a decent pair of streaming active speakers for around 1K or even less.

 

[JamieMcC]

Tidal has it

 

[Gizza]

10k would buy you a decent LP starter system .If I was to start again I would not touch digital.LP replay for me sounds way better.The level of musical information captured in those groves means you are forever rewarded by upgrades..it’s much more of an involved experience.Spotify is for the sheep.

...the crackles and pops though (I prefer to reserve that for my breakfast cereal)...AND the cost of costly purchases to hear new music vs. 10 or 11 pound a month subscription for streaming... AND the cost of a new stylus or retip for a decent cartridge.
Whilst vinyl does usually have the best dynamic range of the various music formats, carefully chosen cd or sacd/DVD-Audio releases can be very, very close, without the snap, crackle and pop.