No question Audirvana sounds better, warmer and richer, the mids and highs not as shrill. Then I tested the same songs to my home theater system using mconnect and then the Audirvana remote app. Definitely a positive difference vs playing through the native Qobuz app. Then I kept hearing about Audirvana so installed a free trial of that and first tried it directly from my laptop over my computer bookshelf speakers. So, I'd decided to go with Qobuz, connecting it to my receiver via dlna using the mconnect app. And, the more I read about MQA the less I'm a fan of that approach. Then I found Qobuz and I'm able to stream that directly to my Onkyo receiver via dlna and it works great, sounds markedly better than Tidal. I was a longtime Spotify premium member but first found Tidal and even without hardware to decode MQA found it to produce a much better sound. Normally I listen to music in my high end car stereo system while driving. We just recently upgraded our home theater speaker such that now we once again sitting at home and enjoy listening to music. Sorry for reviving an old threat but I figure with the advent of Qobuz in the US, might be worth a revisit. Let your ears be your guide.'ĭealer for: Aqua Hi-Fi, Aurender, AudioQuest Cables & Power Products, Avantgarde Acoustics, Avid HiFi, Bakoon Audio, Berkeley Audio Design, Block Audio, Boulder Amplifiers, Bowers & Wilkins (B&W), Bryston, Chord, Classe’ Audio, Degritter Record Cleaning Machines, Esoteric, FirstWatt, Focal Headphones, Franco Serblin Loudspeakers, Furutech, Fyne Audio Loudspeakers, GigaFoil, Harbeth Loudspeakers, Hegel, HiFi Man, ISO Acoustics, Keces Power Supplies, Kharma Loudspeakers and Electronics, Koetsu Cartridges, Kuzma Turntables, Lumin, Luxman, Magico Loudspeakers, MBL Speakers & Electronics, MSB Technologies, MySonicLabs Phono Cartridges, Naim Audio, Nordost Cables, Ortofon, Pass Labs, Quadraspire, Rega Turntables and Electronics, Shunyata Research, SimAudio, Stein Music Products, Stillpoints, VAC, Vicoustics, Viva Audio, Vivid Audio Loudspeakers, VPI Industries, WireWorld Cables. 'We can hear everything we measure, but we can't measure everything we hear.

Audirvana plus 1.5