Tidal and Qobuz are akin to having unfettered access to a CD store. We ask: “Does it to Tidal?” or “Does it do Qobuz?” because we know that our FLAC collection will never be as comprehensive as a streaming service’s library. Let that sink in for a minute.Ĭonsequently, music streaming service support is a factor when choosing a hardware streamer. Streaming services fill in the missing 90%. We must use the likes of Tidal and Qobuz are to ‘flesh out’ our collections. Digital libraries can be built by ripping yesterday’s physical media collection onto today’s hard drive but we can’t own everything – it’s just not possible. This is otherwise known as CD-quality and is audiophile sweet spot for quality and, most importantly. Ditto MQA and its pre-cursor, hi-res PCM.įile format coverage only starts to become properly comprehensive once we drop down to lossless audio e.g. Until real life says otherwise – 99.9% of the world’s recorded music remains unavailable in the bitstream format.
The digital audio world also has its fair share of idealists. The same can also be said of the digital world where everything from the D/A converter to the streamer (and its power supply) to the file format used to encode the stream make a difference to what we eventually hear. The vinyl-or-die brigade’s idealism conveniently sails past the hard truth that no two turntables, tonearms or cartridges sound alike. Do audiophiles all want the same things? Not by a long shot. His songs document interpersonal relationships, not those that exist between man and his audio machinery.
So reckons the Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn.
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