How much would you be willing to pay your preferred music streaming services, to have full or near full unlimited access to the world’s music upto 24/192?
So our of interest while I voted for $20-$30.
I actually have multiple subscriptions which included Qobuz Sublime, Tidal family plan and YouTube premium family plan, so the real answer is about £50
I resisted streaming for a long time. Having a fair collection of CD’s that were also ripped to a NAS, I did not see the point of paying a subscription to listen to music that I had in my collection. My reasoning was that I was better of to use the money to grow my collection with music I like.
Due to music stores being less and less common, I eventually caved in and signed up for Apple Music as part of Apple One. Although it allowed me to discover new music, it didn’t feel right as a lot of my listening still involved music that was already in my collection.
A few months ago I discovered Roon, and with Roon I discovered Qobuz. After a trial period, I signed up for Qobuz Sublime. For me this offers the perfect balance. I use Qobuz for discovering music and buy what I like. Although I pay a higher subscription, I am able to purchase a lot of music with a discount so that this covers the subscription cost.
It sure pays for itself if you buy enough music, but you have to get hi-res. I will not do that. Besides having to use more space and bandwidth for no reason, I would perpetuate a hoax.
Absolutely. I’m 3 months into my subscription. During that time, I’ve purchased 55 hi-res albums from Qobuz. Although I’ve (deliberately) not kept track of my savings, I would say that on average the discount on a his-res album is 25 to 30%, sometimes more. So my entire subscription is more or less paid for when comparing to the hi-res price.
I’ve wondered about this. On the one hand, there is more income from my subscription. On the other hand, the discounted price allows me to buy more.
Actually, this is kind too apodictical from my point of view. Terms such as 16/44.1 or 192/24 (even lossless) are good for computer scientist and engineers (development of ADCs, DACs, filters, reconstruction algorithms, noise reduction etc.). For audiophiles the is: piano should sound like a piano, violin like a violin…
There are terrible CD-format recordings out there. Obviously the 16/44.1 parametrization was not enough in order to compensate existing electronic components limitations.
NB: do not assume to hear the “right” sound when you listen to electrophone music.
We hardly have a “representation" in the brain how an electrophone used by a recording session should sound like.