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Discussion on: How much does audio quality matter to you with your headphone music?

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Manuel Ojeda

Well at this moment I have both: Spotify and Tidal and I can assure you that quality is needed in music streaming, Spotify needs to release a FLAC version yer o yes.

Then in my personal preference I love a lot the Quality sound from Tidal because I have cleansed my audition and I can know when an audio has bad quality.

But there are 2 problems with Tidal over Spotify:

1.- The audio quality depends of the hardware. I code in two different PC's (work and personal), In my Personal PC I have a good audio chipset and I can get the great quality from Tidal, but in my work and can't hear the quality that I get in my home, so the quality depends from the HW.

2.- The music library from Spotify defeats Tidal. I usually consume a lot of gaming OST and Spotify have a lot of soundtracks that other services doesn't have.

In conclusion: Depends from Hardware and content, but I can assure you the quality from Tidal is superb.

PS: I listen music with a HyperX Cloud 2 (A little older)