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It's twice the price of Spotify, Rdio and others but the first to offer CD quality bitrates via FLAC.
They even have a bitrate test so you can test your best cans or speakers.
http://test.tidalhifi.com
Great for fans of lossless formats but it comes at a premium price of 20 bucks per month.
Here's a review:
http://toolsandtoys.net/reviews/tidal-high-fidelity-music-streaming/
Excerpt:
I mostly used a pair of Ultimate Ear 11 Pro custom in-ear monitors to listen to music with. But I also tried Tidal with a pair of $100 (open back) Grado SR 80e headphones, a pair of $200 earbuds from Normal, and of course, I used a pair of white Apple EarPods just to see a difference. (Spoiler, the white EarPods dont provide a quality listening experience.)
For the most part, I struggled to tell a difference between 320 kbps and 1141 kbps while using the Normals and the SR 80e headphones. There were definitely moments where the difference was obvious, but switching between the two qualities wasnt like unlocking two different doors. Both headphones have wonderful sound, but both bitrates were more than sufficient for quality sound. Using the $1,000+ in-ear monitors that were custom molded to my ears, however, was a different story. I could definitely tell a difference, and felt like I was hearing little bits of music I had only previously heard while being in a recording studio.
They even have a bitrate test so you can test your best cans or speakers.
http://test.tidalhifi.com
Great for fans of lossless formats but it comes at a premium price of 20 bucks per month.
Here's a review:
http://toolsandtoys.net/reviews/tidal-high-fidelity-music-streaming/
Excerpt:
I mostly used a pair of Ultimate Ear 11 Pro custom in-ear monitors to listen to music with. But I also tried Tidal with a pair of $100 (open back) Grado SR 80e headphones, a pair of $200 earbuds from Normal, and of course, I used a pair of white Apple EarPods just to see a difference. (Spoiler, the white EarPods dont provide a quality listening experience.)
For the most part, I struggled to tell a difference between 320 kbps and 1141 kbps while using the Normals and the SR 80e headphones. There were definitely moments where the difference was obvious, but switching between the two qualities wasnt like unlocking two different doors. Both headphones have wonderful sound, but both bitrates were more than sufficient for quality sound. Using the $1,000+ in-ear monitors that were custom molded to my ears, however, was a different story. I could definitely tell a difference, and felt like I was hearing little bits of music I had only previously heard while being in a recording studio.