I have just compared Melody Gardot’s Currency Of Man on my ND555 listening via 16bit rip locally streamed (saved as flac converted to wav on the fly) vs 24bit flac via Qobuz.
Locally streamed 16 bit wins hands down on this album! I thought that the 24 bit advantage of the Qobuz stream might have narrowed the gap between local and subscription streaming…well not on this album. On the Qobuz stream Melody’s voice is softer, leading to a fuzziness and loss of diction which renders her vocals a little less intelligible. The bass is more bloated on the Qobuz stream which occasionally obscures some of the other detail.
Don’t get me wrong, Qobuz is very good but on the evidence of this very limited test, subscription streaming does not surpass CD rips locally streamed, even when comparing 24 bit to 16 bit source.
I can only compare Qobuz via chromecast and now with integration and certainly the later is much better.
I have none of the bloat that has been mentioned and there is far more image depth.
Strange. Maybe worth checking if your user name or password have any characters that the Naim app doesn’t recognise. That was an issue for a few Tidal users a while ago.
I still have to re-log into Qobuz in the Naim app after closing the app. The app does not retain my username. It does remember the password. Same issue on both the iPhone and iPad. It only affects the device I close the app on. The other device stays logged in.
I reset the app and network, deleted and re-installed app and restarted NDX 2. No change.
Updated my NDX2 but it it’s now just sitting there with the standby light flashing, I presume it’s cooked but won’t switch on, should I unplug and restart?