These are a great way to dive deep while listening to carefully curated offerings from our music team. Beyond what we will be offering in 2023, what else would you suggest a Shindig! reader investigates?ĭM: The Panoramas section (called Grand Angles in France) offers interactive, long-form articles about key artists, genres, and scenes. We offer a monthly playlist, as do other cool publications like Jockey Slut, and we are also working on in-depth playlists centring around labels, genres, sub-genres and more, with accompanying essays. Qobuz is certainly more of a streamlined platform. S!:For the younger listener Spotify have nailed the app interface with their recommendations, Apple have their radio. ![]() You can also search by record label on Qobuz which is a great way to discover new stuff. You can save any album, track or artist to your library for easy access later across all your devices. Our editors have selected hundreds of important albums across all genres which is a good place to start. Qobuz has a section called “The Taste Of Qobuz”. The other thing that makes Qobuz different is we also offer a Hi-Res download store for those customers who want to buy digital albums in the best available audio quality. Music producers and engineers tell us they think Qobuz sounds best, and I trust their ears. I don’t know what other processing these services apply. Could you explain what each offers, and why Qobuz is the best choice?ĭM: Qobuz streams the same audio files as Apple and Amazon. S!:For anyone who has considered embracing high-res streaming and considered Tidal’s MQA, or your CD quality FLACs and 24-bit files, Amazon’s and Apple’s versions, it’s quite confusing. Qobuz is not adaptive, which means the sound quality is not automatically degraded to match your bandwidth – and Wi-Fi inevitably is a weak point when streaming giant audio files. The other big recommendation we have for streaming Qobuz at home is hard wire your devices via Ethernet to your router for best results. Every audio manufacturer is now making streamers or amplifiers with streamers built in, which allow you to listen to music in the system without hooking it up to a computer or phone. ![]() For the uninitiated could you offer a few other recommendations of how to make the most of Qobuz in a home environment?ĭM: Bluesound Node is good, there is also a new product called the WiiM mini streamer which also does full Hi-Res streaming. I use a Node streamer and the quality is brilliant. S!: Listening in the car or walking using 4G and a lower bitrate is fine, but for me, the serious way to enjoy Qobuz is to listen to the 24-bit high res files through the home stereo. Good speakers are probably the most important thing though! From there you can start getting into upgrades like dedicated streamers and higher-end DACS. If you already have a home system set up to listen to vinyl, and you have an aux in or tape in on your receiver, you can run right out of the same USB DAC you use for your phone. We advise using wired headphones, and try a low cost USB DAC (digital-to-analog converter) between your phone and the headphones for best results. Even with the newest codecs, it is not bit-perfect. S!: Now we have the basics out of the way, could you explain the best ways to make the most of Qobuz whether listening via headphones or through their hi-fi?ĭM: The biggest misconception out there is that you can hi-res audio over Bluetooth.
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