cymbop wrote: > I was able to get subscribed to Tidal and install the Ickstream plugin > within an hour or so. Minor hiccup when the Ickstream platform itself > seemed to go down for a while, and I had to futz with the FLAC playback > settings within the LMS Advanced tab to get all tracks to play. But > with patience came triumph. > > In terms of interface convenience, it's on par with Spotify via SBT. > The search function is clunkier and tends to cast a wide net for hits > and return much more than you are looking for, but no big deal. Tidal > via SBT does have access to curated playlists that Spotify via SBT does > not. Plus for me. > > I did not do a direct comparison with Spotify for sound quality, but > after an hour of listening it felt surely better, more three > dimensional. Upper frequencies seemed accentuated slightly. > > I did an A/B/A between Tidal and a couple of familiar FLAC tracks ripped > to my local hard drive and accessed via Touch. Unfortunately, the > hard-drive rips won by a small but definite margin with better detail > retrieval and overall a more pure and clean presentation. So I am > slightly disappointed that at this moment the lossless streaming > available to me does not equal the best fidelity I've had at home, but I > will go forward with Tidal for sure.
I would agree that Tidal's audio quality is not quite as good as a ripped cd on your computer . But it sounds significantly better then Spotify . I have to tell you I wonder if Spotify isn't cheating premium users with a fair amount of stuff that's not encoded at 320 . It seems to me that recently their audio quality has suffered . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jimmypowder's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=61215 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102381 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
