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Are they still a “high fidelity” streaming service if they are lying?

• meowface 8y ago
  I'm very against this (and any) fraud, and the evidence here is pretty damning. But I've been using Tidal since about a year before Jay-Z bought it, and it was and still is my favorite streaming service. Super fast and pretty UI, lossless audio, and a selection that now seems to rival Spotify's. I'll admit my main reason for using it is the wide selection of albums to losslessly stream. I know many people will say any differences in lossless audio are explained by the placebo effect (which could be true), but I've already spent thousands on the best audio system I could afford, so I figure I might as well spend a little bit extra on the source material as well. (I know many people will say there's no difference with lossless whether you have a good system or not, and that there's also no difference between a low-end and a high-end system regardless of compression, but my experience of both differs, even if it may all be in my head.)
  • matthewmcg 8y ago
    Yes I use them too for the same reasons (via Roon to various endpoints and DACs). I just couldn’t resist the double entendre about fidelity.
  • baroffoos 8y ago
    There is a test online that shows you 2 mp3 encodings and a wav and you have to pick out the wav. I couldn't get any right but my bf got them all correct so there could be some small noticeable difference between mp3 320kbps and lossless. Personally I store flacs because I want to use Opus instead of mp3 on mobile and mp3 to opus will trash the quality
  • kup0 8y ago
    It is my main online music service, mostly for the fast / minimal UI that seems to work quite well even on slower machines and navigates well back and forth between items. It's one of the best streaming service experiences I've encountered.