Jay-Z tonight outlined his vision as the new owner of TIDAL in a live streamed broadcast to the planet. In case you haven’t heard of TIDAL before, it’s essentially a music streaming service, but unlike services like Spotify that play compressed files, TIDAL delivers high-fidelity sound. Alicia Keys presented an artist owned music streaming format to create a better…
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Tidal may have a new owner, nearly. Jay-Z’s investment vehicle ‘Project Panther Bidco’ has offered $56m to buy the parent of Tidal, Aspiro. The board of Aspiro has recommended shareholders accept the offer. Aspiro may be getting nervous, their annual report confesses a lack of funding for the year ahead; Tidal has just reported 12,00…
Tidal is a new lossless streaming platform that offers an audiophile experience that is at least CD quality with access to, reputedly, 25 million tracks. It also offers a video streaming service with access to 75,000 videos, an area I have not particularly explored in this review. I’ll cut to the chase. I’m a Spotify…
A fine presentation of a fine product at a fine venue. There was no mention of the “S” word at the “W” Hotel and so the newly launched “Bluesound” brand had all the space it deserved. Bluesound is from the NAD audio electronics and PSB speakers stable and the pedigree, on first listen, was clear…
TIDAL is a new service by the Scandinavian makers of WiMP HiFi, Aspiro, that aims to deliver high fidelity music streaming, HD music videos and curated editorial in the U.S and U.K.