When I first got into hifi a few years ago I started streaming with Amazon HD. Sounded great, huge catalog.
My wife has a Spotify subscription and it had music from her native country that Amazon didn't have; so I switched to that.
I left Spotify for various reasons and decided to "splurge" on Tidal premium. Sounded great, blah blah blah.
After some home device consolidation and reading enough articles on music quality and audibility, I switched to Apple hi-res (larger selection, native on my devices, etc.)
The second I switched from Tidal to Apple I noticed a massive difference in the way the music sounds - it's not nearly as "in my face", and I have to crank volume knobs up substantially more - this is not conjecture - it affects my car, my home stereo, etc. I have tried multiple EQ settings in Apple and I can't hear any differences between them.
Is this some bs trick TIDAL plays with their service? Am I missing a setting or feature on Apple that would change it?
I'm aware this community will probably roast me but I'm telling you this phenomenon is annoying and really makes me wish I had TIDAL back, but I like the Apple app much better and the larger catalog is nice. Any ideas?
My wife has a Spotify subscription and it had music from her native country that Amazon didn't have; so I switched to that.
I left Spotify for various reasons and decided to "splurge" on Tidal premium. Sounded great, blah blah blah.
After some home device consolidation and reading enough articles on music quality and audibility, I switched to Apple hi-res (larger selection, native on my devices, etc.)
The second I switched from Tidal to Apple I noticed a massive difference in the way the music sounds - it's not nearly as "in my face", and I have to crank volume knobs up substantially more - this is not conjecture - it affects my car, my home stereo, etc. I have tried multiple EQ settings in Apple and I can't hear any differences between them.
Is this some bs trick TIDAL plays with their service? Am I missing a setting or feature on Apple that would change it?
I'm aware this community will probably roast me but I'm telling you this phenomenon is annoying and really makes me wish I had TIDAL back, but I like the Apple app much better and the larger catalog is nice. Any ideas?