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I second what the other poster said. Audiophiles are either pirates torrenting FLAC for archival purposes, or (if they are classical or jazz fans) they are stil
by Mediterraneo10 9y ago
I second what the other poster said. Audiophiles are either pirates torrenting FLAC for archival purposes, or (if they are classical or jazz fans) they are still buying SACD physical media. I don't doubt that a few people have been attracted to Tidal for lossless streaming, but you can see for yourself just how little Tidal is discussed on audiophile forums, so just saying "audiophiles" doesn't explain where Tidal is actually a thing.
- chipotle_coyote 9y agoI dunno; I see Tidal discussed on Audiophile forums a lot, in no small part because they've worked out deals to be integrated with commercial lossless/"hi res" players like Roon and Audirvana. Tidal supports both lossless streaming and MQA streaming. (MQA being a kind of weird and controversial lossy-but-high-res audio format, whose biggest difference in practice is probably using different psychoacoustic models and theoretically accounting for theoretically audible timing differences. I've listened to it on good equipment and can't say that I really hear a difference between it and lossless recording.) In any case, not even audiophiles are buying physical SACDs. There are digital downloads in DSD format, though.
- jrace 9y agoActually you find that Tidal is the recommended streaming site on most Audiophile forums. Roon was marketed heavily to Audiophiles and the addition of Tidal was long sought-after. https://community.roonlabs.com/c/roon/tidal https://community.roonlabs.com/c/roon/tidal
- meowface 9y agoI'd consider myself an audiophile and I exclusively use Tidal for all music-listening nowadays. I know lots of others who use it for the same purposes. Shady business dealings aside, Tidal is the best and best-looking music streaming service I've used.