My Experience with Music Players and Music Servers... So far

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Originally Posted by bruno2009

... further I now added a test abo with (lossless?) Tidal. First there is no noticable difference between Apple Music and Tidal to me - sometimes I even prefer the Apple Music playback (which I find strange as from what I understand Apple Music has lower quality than Tidal?)… More important though - none came close to Vinyl. CD was also superior. Of course the quality of my hardware is way higher with my analoge setup - so its really not a fair or serious compare - just thought I‘d share my impressions though...

Do you pay Tidal $20/month for a premium subscription? If not, then you are not getting CD quality music from Tidal.

If you are a premium subscriber to Tidal, then make sure that in Settings, under Streaming you have selected the “Master” audio quality option.