The playlist

Here are our carefully curated recommendations of the best music streaming service for those who value sound quality above all. Form an orderly queue…

There was a time when the likes of Spotify (which, back when, didn’t have much, if any, competition) was something that fans of hi-fi and high-quality music would have prized more for convenience than sound quality. The relatively lower-res streams, typically 256kbps or 320kbps, AAC, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis, wouldn’t pass muster in our hi-fi listening rooms when compared with CDs in particular. But, recommendations and clever algorithms held the day, and convinced an entire generation to ditch even their MP3s, which had already trounced CDs for convenience and personal playlisting. These days, of course, everyone streams. But the good news for fans of quality music replay is that much higher quality files can now be passed in far less ‘lossy’ fashion over Bluetooth. First Tidal began offering hi-res tracks…

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What Hi-Fi? (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024

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