Tidal

The best music service for streaming-savvy audiophiles

View online review whf.cm/Tidal From £11 per month Tidal has been riding an encouraging wave of momentum in the past five years, since it became the first service to offer hi-res audio streaming thanks to its adoption of MQA technology. Now Tidal is ditching MQA – but the streaming service does still offer hi-res streaming up to 192kHz via the FLAC format, which is compatible with more music streamers and hi-fi hardware due to its open-source nature. Of course, Tidal is far from the only hi-res music streaming service today, with Qobuz, Amazon Music and Apple Music also offering better-than-CD-quality streams. Spotify HiFi bringing CD quality sometime in the near future will only intensify the competition too. So, is Tidal still number one? In April 2024, Tidal simplified its subscription…

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

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