![]() ![]() It served me well, now I wonder if I should have tried to fix it. That Sansui, the AU11000, is worth a fortune now. And it was far from cheap, $795 sans a turntable amp, which was $150, which I ultimately laid down for a week later. He kept reinforcing that it was only two channel. This is what the salesman asked me when my Sansui burned up and I went to replace it with an NAD. And if you wanted to replicate the experience of the seventies and you actually found a retailer with equipment in this price range they were reluctant to sell it to you, because most audio had become multi-channel, as in home theatre systems, did you really want stereo? Suddenly a stereo system didn’t cost a few thousand dollars, but tens of thousands of dollars. And there was a small market that went upscale, way upscale. The main market became all-in-ones, not much better than boom boxes. But you’ve got to have the equipment to reproduce the sound.Īudio split back in the nineties. But wasn’t the goal to get closer to the music in the seventies? If you want to get closer to the music you want Qobuz. 0000005 % audio-geeks get the most out of our toys.It is better. Your entire job is to help me and the rest of us. We spend too much time and energy agonizing over gear when we should be agonizing over recordings. But the depressing reality is that we have no control a really good recording streamed over Tidal will always beat a so-so recording streamed over Qobuz, and vice versa. I also have a dumb, but nonetheless real, skepticism toward MQA and its whole “compressed, but not really” approach. But, like others have said, I do prefer the Qobuz sound for some elusive reason. I’ve invested a decent chunk of money into my digital side on two systems, and I still find it a close call. (2) I question whether it’s decent enough, however, to reveal a difference between HiRez Qobuz files and Tidal’s MQA. (1) OP is doing something that, IMHO, more people should do: bypassing the Node 2 DAC and using it as a streamer only. ![]() Almost sounds like two different recordings when listening on Qobuz vs Tidal. The Qobuz file sounds fuller and has more presence. I listened to ’The Box’ by Roddy Ricch which is a MQA file on Tidal and CD quality on Qobuz. Not a big fan of hip hop, but decided to listen to something that is squarely in Tidal’s area of focus. The CD quality file on Qobuz sounds a LOT fuller and more natural. I’m currently listening to a track that is a MQA file on Tidal vs a CD quality file on Qobuz. In the process, I think side effects of doing this is to take out some of the presence of voices and instruments and add an artificial quality to voices and instruments. I think they have applied some equalization to boost the bass and treble. ![]() ![]() Some additional thoughts about Tidal after listening on higher quality equipment. Spotify Premium even seems to sound better than Tidal. I’ll listen a bit more to Tidal, but so far I’m not impressed at all. Tidal sounds very two dimensional and flat in its sound quality but with some harshness in the high frequencies. Round 2, Qobuz vs Tidal: So far Qobuz is clearly better than Tidal even listening through pretty cheap desktop passive speakers. My listening notes comparing Qobuz to Tidal: ![]()
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