![]() ![]() Main system: Linn Klimax KDSM/2 w/Organik D’Agostino Momentum S250 & HD pre Rega P10 w/Koetsu Rosewood Platinum Signature Boulder 1108 Sonus faber Il Cremonese Shunyata Everest, Alpha v2 & Sigma PC, Alpha v2 IC & SC UpTone EtherRegen Quadraspire Sunoko-Vent T, ISOAcoustics Orea & HRS DampingĢnd system: PrimaLuna EVO 300, Sonus faber Minima Amator II, REL T-5, refurbished AR XA w/Nagaoka MP-200 & VPI cabling, Naim NDX 2, Shunyata PS8 w/Defender & Viper, Nordost Blue Heaven PC & IC, Shunyata Venom sc, Symposium Svelte Shelves ![]() I’m interested in your thoughts regarding the minimum broadband speed I need, and whether I should select cable or fibre to upgrade to? 25Mb is CenturyLink’s maximum speed in my area, but I can get fibre connectivity in increments ranging from 45Mb up to 1Gb and cable connectivity in increments ranging from 50Mb up to 1,5Gb, and StarLink satellite service from Space X at 70Mb ($100/month, no data cap) plus $600 for satellite equipment is now available in my area. These dropouts/freezes suggest my CenturyLink 25Mb DSL speed is not enough for either Qobuz and Tidal and that I need to purchase more bandwidth. And the MQA feeds from Radio Paradise are always glitch-free compared to Tidal and Qobuz. I recently started listening to the four lossless radio streams with MQA encoding now offered by Radio Paradise, and interestingly enough I DO NOT have these dropouts and/or music freezes with the Radio Paradise streams. I do seem to suffer a few more problems listening to Qobuz than Tidal, and I attribute this to Qobuz’smultiple higher resolution offerings (higher resolution than Redbook CD) vs, the MQA offerings from Tidal which I believe use a bit less bandwidth than Qobuz’s higher resolution offerings. I can rarely listen for more than 20 minutes or so without experiencing what I would deem dropouts in either the Qobuz or Tidal music stream, or the stream will simply freeze and I have to hit the “play” icon to re-start the music stream. My hardware includes a Bluesound Node 2i connected by a short Ethernet cable (Not using a wireless connection) to my CenturyLink DSL router. My actual DSL speed varies from about 18Mb up to 25Mb and this can vary during the day. I currently have 25Mb DSL from CenturyLink (previously Sprint landline) and I subscribe to both Qobuz and Tidal. I haven’t had time to check on the other system yet.I live in a sparsely populated rural area with only a few Internet providers. I am listening on Auralic Altair G1 via ARC SP17, Quad 909 and Harbeth P3ESR so this isn’t exactly a hyper revealing system and yet the difference is clearly there it’s so obvious that no effort is required to discern the difference. It’s not as though there are that many versions of the albums that I have compared. It seems to be something other than different versions. And this has happened with each album that I have compared so far for example Japan’s Gentlemen Take Polaroids - have a listen to the opening of Methods of Dance, the tone and punch of the bass drum is different as is the soundstage and sound of the sax. In fact Tidal albums sound close to my ripped CDs and QoBuz doesn’t Qobuz is softer, more rounded, and slightly more relaxed. Obviously QoBuz play the files that they are given but I have noticed that albums have a softer sound than the ‘same’ album on Tidal. I have been listening to QoBuz for two days now and something has struck me about it’s sound. ![]()
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