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  1. #1
    Join Date: Dec 2012

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    Default Spotify via Apple TV vs expensive streamer

    I've been using an auralic streamer to stream tidal hifi at a cost of £26 a month for about 12 months. Ive found it to have decent sound quality, but think I'd rather buy 10 2nd hand cds a month as to be honest, the playlist side of Tidal is crap and I find the interface hard work.
    Spotify, however, has all the sort of music I like to listen to in convenient playlists that are easily accessed.
    I understand Spotify can't compete in terms of quality so do I really need to use the Auralic or is Spotify the limiting factor meaning i might as well go back to just connecting through apple TV?
    I could sell the auralic then
    Would a bluesound using Spotify sound better than using my apple TV?

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    certainly dont require a top machine for spotify. its just mp3.. sounds decent tho and good interface. prefer qobuz to tidal and its cheaper too
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    Does Qobuz work in the same way as Tidal Grant?
    Is it just the basic Studio subscription that I'd need for decent quality?

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    yup just same. better interface; maybe a different content make up depending on taste. you'll get a free trial tho
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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    I've signed up. Cancelled tidal...

    Straight away, the interface is better and it's suggesting music types I like more.

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