Pretty much. I have 214 MQA’s and 262 high resolution Qobuz. I like Tidal, but won’t be able to justify keeping it when my 6 month subscription runs out in June. There is nothing I listen to that is not available on both services.
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Tidal for me, but only because I got the £5 for 5 months deal.
I’ve Been a long time user of Qobuz for digital purchase and they tend to be my go-to when I want to own an album.
Will see how things pan out come renewal time. If tidal are still £20, I may jump ship and use Qobuz for streaming but so far I have no major complaints with tidal.
Tidal is perhaps more pop / rap heavy than my preferences enjoy and Qobuz has all the albums I would ever listen to!
Watch this space
I’ve noticed some progress in my catalog as well. I’ve been able to swap a number of Tidal albums for Qobuz, but Qobuz still isn’t quite at 100% for me.
Currently Tidal, considering trial of Qobuz to compare
Based on what @Jim_F and I have seen, the Qobuz catalog may or may not be as good as Tidal depending on what you listen to.
Beyond the question of catalog size, though, I prefer Qobuz Hi-Res to Tidal MQA (even with MQA-capable gear), but I guess that’s a bit subjective. Or maybe a religious question. 
One place Tidal clearly beats Qobuz is Apple CarPlay integration. The Qobuz implementation of CarPlay is a flaming pile of poo. At best.
I use Apple Music with CarPlay. I can’t get Tidal or Qobuz to work very well, and with my car audio system, Apple Music is fine.
Yeah, I do as well, sometimes. I still prefer Tidal (for CarPlay), but whether I can tell much difference depends a lot on the road conditions/noise.
I’m so happy to see all of the support for Qobuz!
Finally actual high resolution lossless files!
After taking the time to research MQA at length, I have concluded it is a marketing ploy. Something akin to building a codec designed for a landline modem, right before the world has broadband. MQA is good for Tidal, because it means Tidal doesn’t have to pay for more bandwidth. It is not good for high res music, because it is a lossy format. Hopefully this format will be obsolete quickly, replaced with true lossless high res.
Best video on this topic in my humble opinion is by Paul McGowan at PS Audio: https://youtu.be/xl3LDwQ1pVs
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So you are paying for Roon, Apple Music, Tidal and Qobuz?
My other halve will only use Apple Music and I use it on Carplay, I’m trying to get my head round where that leaves Roon, Tidal and Qobuz all of which I’m on a free trials,
I’m only on a year Roon subscription.
I actually just started using Quboz on trial and really like it. A few months ago I switched from Apple Music to Tidal HiFi family plan when I started using Roon. My plan was to downgrade to Tidal Premium (for the family) and get a Quboz yearly. However I just learned Quboz is no longer offering a yearly plan for Studio Premier. So I just stick with Tidal.
I’m currently paying for Qobuz, Tidal, Apple Music, and Spotify. The family prefers Spotify, but we may let the Apple Music sub expire soon.
I’m a Qobuz subscriber, the price reduction hasn’t got round to my country yet, but my annual subscription is still great value and the service is fantastic. Beyond anything you could’ve dreamed about years ago. And to those of you who can get it for 15.99$, £ or € - just do it.
I bought a lifetime subscription to Roon. I paid for 12 months of Qobuz and 6 months of Tidal. I will probably drop Tidal now that Qobuz has totally caught up with what I listen to. I have a free subscription to Apple Music provided by Verizon Wireless.
I’ve been running both Qobuz & Tidal ‘on and off’ for the last year or so.
I personally prefer Qobuz (I have a leaning towards classical music, for which Qobuz is clearly superior), but I kept Tidal for the odd-album I couldn’t find on Qobuz.
I’ve now bought the CD’s I was missing from Qobuz, and have imported them into my Nucleus, thereby obviating the need for two separate subscriptions.
Plus, the interface with Roon is now a lot less cluttered, with only my local library and Qobuz to consider 
Keep checking Qobuz for anything you are missing. They seem to be adding new content very quickly.
The family has a shared Spotify account, which I use in the car and on my phone with some decade old Sony buds.
I’ve trialed Tidal, Idagio, Deezer, and Qobuz, and subscribed to Qobuz annual yesterday. I’m still on my trial of Roon.
I have several Spotify playlists, and used Soundiz to sync them to Tidal, Deezer, and Qobuz. Qobuz had by far the lowest percentage of success in finding matches. One list of around 120 songs was 40ish% match. Some have improved already in the nearly two weeks since I signed up for the trial, so I have high hopes for their future library.
I really like Idagio for their classical library, and for sorting and searching using composer - work - performance hierarchy that no other streamer uses. But I can’t justify three services at this point, nor does Idagio work with Roon.
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Larry, I signed up for the Studio annual plan. After doing so, I saw an “upgrade” button to go to Studio Premium for the same price. I sent an email to Qobuz asking, but haven’t heard anything yet. A search led me to read that last November Qobuz did away with the different tiers, so I think Studio and Studio Premium are actually the same thing. Someone correct me in I’m misunderstanding, please.
I could not find Studio + on the website after also researching this option last night
Pls let me know if I missed something
Thank you!
Yes! I just switched to Qobuz fully aware that some of my favorite albums were missing and many of the albums that were missing around the end of the year have been added since. What a great surprise.
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My Tidal albums are now all available on Qobuz. I have about 600 on each service.
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If you are in the US, Qobuz only offers two plans now: Studio Premier and Sublime+. The only difference aside form price is that Sublime+ gives you discounts when purchasing music and is only available with annual payment (Premier can be paid monthly or annually).
If you are in another country, I believe they have not changed their old plan structure, though they’ve said they plan to do as they’ve done in the US.
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