For flaky cellular and/or WiFi (like in most hotels) the lower bandwidth is important. Plus the bandwidth for streaming lossy Tidal is much lower than the bandwidth for lossless Qobuz (although this can be changed in the Qobuz app). ![]() iPhone to Bluetooth headphones or tablet to Bluetooth speaker, so lossless playback is not necessary since Bluetooth is lossy. And when I’m not at home that usually means that I am using Bluetooth somewhere in the playback chain, e.g. Tidal does have way, way, way better playlists than Qobuz and this is important since Tidal is my go to music service when not using Roon aka when not at home. I don’t notice much difference between the two services with respect to selection, however Tidal does have more of popular music and hip hop slant while Qobuz seems to have a slightly better jazz selection. ![]() The reasons I only have the lower tier Tidal plan is first the price, which is much higher than the Qobuz plan, and second the only way to get high resolution with Tidal is by using MQA and I don’t own any MQA enabled DACs. The twist is that while for Qobuz I have the Studio Premier plan ($150/year), which offers full high resolution flac streaming (24bit/192kHz), for Tidal I only have the Tidal Premium (Family $15/month), which only offers lossy streams at 320Kbps. I use both Tidal and Qobuz as do many of the members who have posted above but with a little twist.
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