just went through about 10 tracks from qobuz tidal and apple, all at 16/44.1 bit perfect.
they were all identical.
to my dac and to my ears. if you hear something vastly different, something isn't setup correctly...
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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Do u think maybe I should set my streaming quality to 24 but 44.1 instead of 24 bit 192khz in the music app?
Might as well, 192 KHz is rather pointless as nobody in this planet can hear 96 KHz.
we're talking about wireless right? yeah give it less to do and not more. wireless signals are more stable with less to do... and you're human like me so you don't have the capability to hear anything outside of the 96db that 16/44.1 affords.
like setting it to 16/44.1 is saying ok, i have this whole ocean to swim in, i'm good - then setting it to 24/anything is saying, yeah i had that ocean but... i wanted to push all the planets out the solar system and swim in the solar system... what? no... you don't need that much space to hear music. you need 20hz to 20khz and that fits in 16/44.1 like a blanket. almost like it was made perfectly for listening to music in the first place :)
so - set to that and find the most generic balanced mode for whatever dsp those have. probably called something latin and smooth like "optimusium" and - listen to your music. with that expensive of a headphone from BW it should literally sound perfect. without fiddling or worrying.
i've got cheap BT stuff i set to LDAC and fugedabouitsperfect. i can't imagine those are giving you this much grief unless the settings are way out of true.
Qobuz is the best for sure.
Sounds like tidal still has dsp problems somewhere since you checked all on apple music apparently. Yes, you can perfectly like a music with this kind of "lower quality". The best way to know is downloading a music or album in lossless format and compare it with both apps.
Does this apply to all tracks or only specific ones? Are you using the highest quality settings on both platforms? Are you listening to MQA tracks by any chance?