Testing at home and I’m comparing Tidal MQA 24/96 albums to Qobuz 24/96 having them upsampled to 128dsd in HQPlayer and Qobuz is the clear winner. Bigger soundstage, more air, and feels cleaner. The MQA version has sort of bloom to the sound making sound a little bassier.
My dac can also do MQA but I found since most of library wasn’t ,overall sounded better to use HQPlayer upsample and for MQA just have roon decode.
I’m actually surprised the true hires sounded so much better since they claimed MQA at 24/96 was supposed to sound almost the same.
So now I can only hope Qobuz greatly expands at launch.
Those are my thoughts exactly! The SQ seems superior with Qobuz and I like having higher-res while on iOS and away from Roon. The only thing holding me back in subscribing and leaving Tidal is that Qobuz is lacking many of the artists the I listen to all the time and in cases where it does have the artist, there are many releases missing.
I am going to ask for another trial period once they are fully locked and loaded.
I have until early Feb to test Qobuz. So, my hope is that they are at full capacity by then. Otherwise, I’ll ask for an extension. Because, I wouldnt want to pay for a month just to see what they have.
I’ve been giving feedback, reporting issues asking for enhancements in the last couple of weeks.
Just saw they are supposed to go live on Valentine’s Day.
I have until 2/16 to make a decision. But think I’m keeping Qobuz since the hires are the best I’ve ever heard. Even just listening hires Clash albums are amazing. Wouldn’t think punk rock would benefit as much but it does. Let’s hope there’s a big expansion of albums on launch day.
As mentioned earlier I also think the Beta is really now just a free trial and only adding people slowly to test out the servers. Glad to see they don’t try to hard to block non US customers as I got accepted even with a .au email address.
I tried comparing Qobuz vs Tidal inside Roon.
Qobuz has better SQ but lacking some artist from Tidal.
It is very unstable. I could not start many tracts due to error. I think this is due to that it is beta version yet.
I will see the progression to live version from beta before I make a decision.
I finally received the email to join the beta test yesterday. Took me just one hour of listening to Roon Radio to determine that I’m keeping both TIDAL and Qobuz, and ditching Pandora and Spotify. The cost of those two apps will free up the cash to subscribe to Qobuz. Thinking about it, the only thing I will miss is the Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify, but I’m sure I’ll get over it
I’m a long time Qobuz 16/44 subscriber (pretended I was in France) and also Tidal/Roon, for some time as well. When the new Roon service started, I added Qobuz Subline on a trial period. It was and is flawlessly integrated at Roon with great SQ from both streamers. Everything, including my small catalog is there and available. I much prefer the Qobuz catalog and may drop Tidal later on. But for now, I"ll enjoy and compare both. I do have 150 mps service if that helps, and use a solid state MacBook Pro to house the Roon core.
I’m new to Roon and just switched to a Qobuz Studio membership. I found a hi-res track in Qobuz but it didn’t show in Roon.
Do i need to rescan or does that only apply to my personal library? Whenever I search for something does Roon also run the search in my enabled services?
If you made an album in Qobuz (or Tidal) a favourite then it will take a while to appear in Roon automatically. To manually do this you need to go to Settings -> Services -> Edit (Quobuz or Tidal) -> Sync library now.
I just joined as a Beta user as well. I have not tried other users playlists. However I did have a question about custom playlists. It seems to limit you to 1,000 songs. Also, when I try to play the 1,000 playlist through Apple CarPlay it gets limited further to 500 songs.
I sent a note to support and they said they are aware of the issues and are working on it.
Has anyone else experienced this ? How about non-U.S. subscribers ? Is this an issue outside of the BETA program as well ?