Most new classical issues have booklets in Qobuz, as well as in Apple Classical. This is a deal breaker for me. I’ve seen very few jazz releases with it but nothing else
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Same, but that makes no real difference between Qobuz and Tidal with pop/rock
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HI Jeff
I had the same question few months ago. I tried both at the same moment.
With Roon you have the feature than show you all versions available for the same song. You will see by yourself which one ROON recommend .
My conclusion, both offer same song with similar quality. But sometimes Tidal is offering a better one,
Let’s yours ears and your wallet make the decision.
Happy listening and enjoy your system
M
I’ve used both for some time and found both to perform equally with my system. I ended up staying with Tidal because I had been using it for the past 10 years and it was more familiar to me. If you try both, you will naturally gravitate to the one that is easier to use. I wish you Good Luck and Good Listening.
I’ve had both since the beginning of streaming. Qobuz was not in the US so had to fake being in France to get it. And the website was in French. Ug. Pretty language if you speak it.
The choice is really about catalog. While there is a good deal of overlap, it’s Rock and Rap focus vs Classical and Standards. After that, the sound quality is somewhat better with Qobuz. More high resolution selections. Many, maybe most, can’t hear the difference or it doesn’t matter to them. It does to me so Qobuz is my first choice. Enjoy the music!
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Focusing on Roon, I’ve found TIDAL to be more reliable over wifi. I have both, but my question was echoed in another thread: why use Roon when the native app/s will suffice?
FWIW all three are useful (even if qobuz’s claims to higher resolution files are frequently contestable). My criterion would be the highest per-stream rate (which would be qobuz) as I suffer from not-buying-but-borrowing remorse.
I’ve had both since the days of streaming via Squeezeboxen and LMS, and generally speaking, I prefer Qobuz.
that said, there is still a great deal of MQA content in Tidal, particularly older opera recordings. They sound fantastic, and are the primary reason I keep my Tidal subscription.
if you’re at all MQA curious, and enjoy classical and opera, you may want to start with Tidal. MQA renders voices more naturally than any other format I’ve heard, including vinyl.
Since both seem to work well a good discriminator might be that Qobuz is reckoned to pay better royalties back to the artists then Tidal I believe.
That and they have a really nice music shop. Which pays artists even better if you decide to buy their music.
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Even better on Bandcamp 
I buy a lot of music there
Torben
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The artist would probably get the same percentage on a stream, though qobuz’s overall rate is around 50 percent higher than TIDAL’s (that is, I’ve read, about $0.018 to $0.012 per stream on average). What percentage the artist gets of that isn’t necessarily negotiated with the streaming service.
With that said qobuz’s monthly cost is perhaps about 50% more than TIDAL’s, and they have way fewer subscribers that I’d think skew less-inclined-to-overstream.
I can’t buy anything like the music that I sample, though buying from either of those stores would be worth many streams.
And perhaps in the end those downloads will be all that is left in our collection/s.