OVERVIEW: Tidal - strimingovy service with the best sound quality

The last few days Tidal service associated with the huge hype in the music world. Firstly, the service was bought by rapper Jay-Z for $ 56 million. Secondly, to restart it, we attended Nikki Minaj, Madonna, Jack White, Daft Punk and a lot of other famous artists. And they are all shouting about the same: "We are tired of how we operate and the record companies want to change the music industry." Damn strange position, but ordinary users like us only care about one thing: whether to pay for a subscription Tidal lot of money and he is better than others?

Tidal - is a service of streaming music playback. Such as Google Music, Yandex. Music, Spotify and others. By and large, the rest of it is distinguished by only two things:

1. Sound quality.
2. Price.

On them we dwell.

Sound quality

Tidal - strimingovy is the only service that offers users to listen to music in lossless quality. Naturally, this affects the amount of data transmitted. I doubt that even with our 3G listening on the go will be comfortable, so the ability to download music for offline can be very useful.

Listening to music on Wi-Fi, I did not notice any slowness in comparison to Google Music, which is in contrast to the Tidal makes it possible to listen to only MP3. Tracks are loaded with the same speed and I have not caught a single hang-up. Tidal library is as big as the other services. I found all the performers, which could recall. Of course, with Russian singers and groups, everything is much worse.

The presentation was devoted to restart the service, Jay-Z said Tidal emphasizes the uniqueness of the content. There is a previously unpublished videos by popular artists, exclusive interviews and even documentaries about how to create different albums. It's really interesting.

But back to the main. The sound quality is really better than Google Music. I was skeptical about the lossless on the iPhone and even even with mediocre headphones, but there is a difference. Also, it seems that artificially inflated the bass - drum as if tries to jump out of the headphones directly into your ears.

In general, even on my headphones for $ 20 I hear the difference in sound. If we connect the iPhone steep and expensive headphones, and even an external amplifier, then... sound really will demolish the tower. It should also say that the Tidal available on computers and that the sound will unfold here in full force.

Price

For cool sound quality will have to pay. And I think, too much. The Tidal there are two types of subscriptions: Hi-Fi and Premium. Premium costs $ 12.99 and is different from the Hi-Fi quality music only - here it will be the standard. Hi-Fi also will cost $ 25.99 and will provide an opportunity to listen to music in lossless.

I am glad that there is a 30-day trial, which removes all restrictions and allows you to try all service functions. Incidentally, in the Tidal is an analogue of Shazam, the music really recognizes it is still not so good.

By connecting a trial, be sure to immediately turn off the auto-update subscription, or a month from your account in the iTunes fly $ 26.

Not for us

Most users still do not understand what is the point to pay Google or Yandex Music 200 rubles a month, if all of it is available for free in FaceBook. I do not see a way how to convince these users to pay $ 26 for something that you can download for free on torrent. But for those who appreciate the convenience and sound quality is worth considering.

By the way, the service is not yet available for download through the Russian App Store, so the only way to try it out - create an account in the US App Store.

Tidal (iOS)

Tidal (website)