There's also a fast and very efficient search engine that auto-fills as you type. The Qobuz app offers New Releases, Most Streamed, Best Sellers, Press Awards, Qobuz Picks (reportedly, a combination of selections made by humans and algorithms), and Qobuz Playlists (curated lists). Music matching, on the other hand, is geared toward giving you more of the same. Discovering music new to you can be a joyous and life-changing event. First, I confess a near hatred of algorithm-based recommendations: "If you like X, you may also like the XX." D'oh! I find machine-made recommendations no match for a human DJ. There are a few basic ways to discover music within the Quboz app. More relevant is the fact that streaming in CD quality from Qobuz Hi-Fi was 100% enjoyment in every way. I also compared a few downloads to the streamed versions and found little difference worth noting, although using third-party media players such as Channel D's Pure Music 2 gave downloads a slight sonic edge. In terms of quality, the wired connection seemed to offer slightly better sound than WiFi. All of that, I believe, falls under the category of "Awesome." I'm smitten. Not to mention what that does for my music-storage requirementsnamely, cutting them down by whatever percentage of music I stream instead of buy.
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With lossless streaming, I no longer have to buy the CD or the download equivalent, and this same online library of lossless music is available to me wherever I have an Internet connection. While better is always better, I'm fine with CD quality, as it can and often does sound just wonderful.
The majority of music most people are interested in and buy is offered, at best, in CD quality (at least until Apple decides to follow first HDTracks' and now Pono's lead. It's like being locked in a museum or library all by your lonesome, and you can stay as long as you like. Many nights found me still awake long after I should have been asleep, listening through the prospect of having so much music right there, right in front of me. Vincent, The Feminine Complex, Swans, Giuseppi Logan, Jimmie Rodgers, EinstÅrzende Neubauten, PJ Harvey, a recent reissue of Grace Jones's Nightclubbing, Mosaic, Burial, Ben Frost, Jimmy Giuffre, and on and on. Having one-click access to a catalog of a claimed 17 million (and growing) tracks of CD-quality music for a fixed monthly price of $27 is file-based-musiclovin' heaven.Ĭab Calloway, Robert Pete Williams, Giacinto Scelsi, St. Okay enjoy is really not the right word. If I listed all of the music I listened to during the weeks I evaluated Qobuz Hi-Fi, I would have no room left to tell you how much I enjoyed it. Streaming in CD Quality Is Better than Good While I did play with the iPhone version, my main listening was through my desktop and main systems.
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There's also a mobile version of the Qobuz app, for both iOS and Android devices each subscription allows you to play the app on up to three mobile devices. The Vega is wired to my Pass Labs INT-30A integrated amplifier using Kimber Kable Select KS 1126 balanced interconnect, and the Pass is wired to my DeVore Fidelity The Nines speakers with Kimber 12TC speaker cable.
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I also used the Qobuz Hi-Fi service in my main system, with my MacBook Pro connected with a length of Light Harmonic Lightspeed cable to an Auralic Vega DAC. (The rest of my desktop system comprises a Mytek Stereo192-DSD DAC connected to a pair of ADAM A3X active speakers.) Once this was set, I experienced no dropouts or interrupts. I found that I had to adjust the buffer size when playing from my iMac, which connects to my network via WiFi.
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Other options include Crossfade Duration (within a range of 2≡5 seconds, set with a sliding scale), Gapless Playback, Cache folder path, Cache max size (automatic 10% of free space, or set with a sliding scale from 1GB to a maximum value that will vary based on the amount of storage available on your computer), Playing buffer size, and Music Downloads Import Quality (320kbps or CD quality).
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