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For best experience cds man. Rip and load to your phone. For streaming Apple Music, Amazon, dezeer, qobuz, tidal offer lossless and that’s closest to cd quality. YouTube, Spotify, crap quality.
Huh? Tidals 24bit, CDs are 16bit 44.1khz. How can u compare the 2? Lossless is better then CDs or rips any day of the week. U get studio quality on tidal with no imperfections. CDs have been processed and u can even say cut down
Thanks for the observation my friend! To be clear, I wasn't being technically specific about the subject, I was generalizing the idea that if OP wanted to listen to better quality audio, should completely avoid YouTube and Spotify.
I know that tidal, Apple Music and the rest offer what they call "high res" which is higher than cd quality, notice I only said lossless (flac cd quality), I did not say high res lossless (higher than cd) which if we're being technical are two different things. However in order to listen to that kind of audio OP would need the proper setup that involves better and more equipment than simply plugging in a set of headphones and an amp or even worse, over bluetooth earbuds.
So if OP just wanted better quality music, every platform aside from YTM and Spotify offer better quality music, in particular lossless which is CD quality and the majority of all the platforms' quality. Granted they use wired headphones/earbuds, not bluetooth, and probably even to the extent of downloading the files because we all know streaming does degrade the quality for the purpose of connectivity. So local download or rip cd will yield them best quality overall.
In any case tidal is the worst example to use about high res because up until recent, they were on something Called QMA, which was discussed by experts to be even worse than just cd quality. Though tidal won't admit it, is one of the reasons why they are completely moving to FLAC. But that's a discussion for another time.