


HiFi – $17.99 AUD a month with lossless High Fidelity sound quality (1411 Kbps).Premium – $11.99 AUD a month with standard sound quality (320 Kbps).

From Tidal’s own support pages we find details of a new set of ‘Subscription Types’: I'm actually still on the higher tier plan but I might downgrade to the CD-quality Hifi.The soft launch of a new pricing structure for Tidal is upon us, starting in Australia. Tidal also has other features like exclusive mode that are more likely to actually make an audible difference. But this has nothing to do with the encoding whether that be Hi-Res, Lossless, MQA or Spotify's Ogg Vorbis. Many albums are reissued with a remaster or even a complete remix, and sometimes the version Tidal has on "Master" is actually different than the version on Spotify, and I can clearly hear the difference. Stuff that is marked "Hifi" in Tidal (more common with older stuff) should be actually lossless original FLACĪnother factor that can make a difference, is the actual issue of an album. Note though that the MQA encoding being served as Hifi only happens with tracks that are "Masters" which is around a third of them, although growing. Which is one of the reasons the whole MQA debacle annoys me, it messes with my whole reason for wanting lossless in the first place. I can't.Īt the same time, I do use Tidal, because then there's no second guessing myself as to whether I can hear something, it's just the original lossless. Many people saying they can hear a difference I suspect it's probably placebo though and they wouldn't pass a blind test. Tidal Hifi is technically "better", more data than Spotify.
