The only reason for the GBP is due to my account being tied to UK based services. For example, one of the album that Tom had posted in the what are you listening to thread was "Love Is Here to Stay by Tony Bennett and Diana Krall" you can purchase that album in 24bit 96kHz format for 10 Great Britian Pounds or Rimsky-Kosakov Scheherazade, Op. The other advantage that Qobuz has is if you like an album you can purchase it as flac file at discounted pricing depending on the subscription tier. All, I needed to do was enter my account information for Qobuz in BubbleUPnP and I was up and running. Since, I was already using BubbleUPnP and HQPlayer Embedded as UPnP renderer, it literally took me 15 seconds to get Qobuz up and running. That options makes it very easy to integrate in your main rig setup. You have just about any streamer out their that has built in client for Qobuz regardless of the cost associated with the streamer, from lowly Logitech Media Server with Touch or Rpi running LMS to Bluesound, Aurender, Lumin, Auralic, Devialet (sp?), etc. All of their API's are published and anyone can write the front end to access their catalog, which helps with integration.
None of the mobile clients have hifi support so the only way to listen to hifi for Deezer is if you use their desktop application which is in beta state or you use one of the consumer product which do not integrate that well with my setup.
QOBUZ 3 MONTH TRIAL SOFTWARE
I have been bugging them to make their API's for hifi available for folks to write additional software but so far no such luck. All of the devices that support Hifi are more consumer based (Alexa, Google Home, Yamaha, Sony receivers, etc). The downside for Deezer which is huge is that they make it very difficult to integrate with your two channel setup. They will play similar songs from their catalog. Deezer has what they call flow which is based around your favorites and you created playlist. The one advantage that Deezer has over Qobuz is how it works with my listening pattern better.
To my ears Qobuz sounds slightly better but I am not sure how much of the that is due to me using Chromecast for Deezer. With Deezer I have to use Chromecast SPDIF connected to SPDIF to USB converter to get the music to HQP, while for Qobuz I can use any of the UPnP clients like BubbleUPnP and/or mConnect.īoth have large selection of music that I like to listen to World, Jazz, 80's/90's music, Blues, Big band and some classical (just trying it out since Qobuz has such a vast collection). I have not been able to do a apples to apples comparison of the sound quality, since I use HQPlayer.
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