Native Qobuz update

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.

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Yes mate, all ready for login details. It just won’t accept them

Are you logging in with email address or username?
Username did not work with Naim app for me but email does work.

Ian

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.

Tried both in multiple different ways.

Even deleted the account and added a new one.

Thoughts are if it was a Naim issue it would be that app that had the problems, the fact I can’t log in to the Qobuz iOS app is a weird one.

I can log in fine on safari on the website.

Apps are up to date (new iOS today aswell)

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.

Is a strange one…

I do remember the tidal format issue. So I have kept it all very simple.

I’ve managed to purchase a track on the website (as a bit of a test). They took money fine and I have the track. Can I play it…can I chuff!!

Can’t figure this out for the life of me

If yu purchase a download you need to store it locally and run a server, or put it in a USB stick on the Nova.

How many devices/apps are you logged into? I think the limit is three.

Just the nova just now.

And trying to log in to the app (Qobuz) to play it.

No success either way…it just doesn’t recognise my login details at all.

Yet the website does…tried the old on and off again routine. See if a new handshake/cache fix would help.

Doesn’t like it.

Looks like Tidal and I are gonna be friends for longer

Can you log in and play music on the Qobuz app on your phone or computer?

No. Just the website (via safari on my phone)

Have you tried logging out and then back in on the Qobuz web page?

Yup…no problems

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.

I will wait a bit with the download to sit out the issues, no urge to switch…

Working flawlessly for me on NDX2 and sounding fantastic!

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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?

Not sure if I’m doing something wrong here, everything seems to playing at 16bit whereas If I play their recommendations, then that 24bit?

I was getting 16 on Tidal, is it worth the extra £5?

Ok…movement

I switched off my WiFi on my phone and it logged into the (Qobuz) app via 4g… no problems.

It must be something to do with my WiFi (tidal still works fine)

So you have more than one Qobuz account?