Hi @Nadian.

Thanks for reaching out and for considering the community platform for your query.

We highly appreciate and acknowledge your interest in this matter, and possible that other users might be wondering about it as well.

No worries, some of the community members might share their experience or provide an opinion about this any time soon.

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Sonos doesn’t support ‘hifi’ unless you’re streaming from your NAS/local drive. All streaming companies are still the same as they have always been. See the original announcement for S2 in the Announcements area of the forum.

In the meantime, if you have the wherewithal, something to do. Buy a genuine HD song track and downsample to your local disc as well to a format that Sonos can presently play via the internet. Then play both from Sonos without knowing which one is playing and see if you can hear the difference.

If you cannot, that should tell you if it will be worth while in future to pay more money to Tidal even when Sonos can take their “hifi” streams. 

Sonos has offered to introduce this capability to counter negative PR that they cannot do this, not because they believe it will deliver better sound quality.

That’s not true, google for Tidal and Sonos. It does support hifi streaming since S2 (albeit a bit lower but then max Tidal bit) 

That would be a good experiment but I’m not familiar with downsampling and then playing on Sonos (no idea how). I could ask someone else to switch between Spotify and Tidal on the Sonos app and blind test it too. Easier

So you really think Sonos doesn’t even reckon the hifi option is better ? Wouldn’t be sure about that.. 

Sonos has said that over and over in the last ten years, that science does not support the hi res claims for better sound quality.

Over this time, every review of the kit says that Sonos is very good, but.....You can guess what follows.

Sonos simply had to get that "but" out of the way in a market that is now a lot more competitive than that in 2010.

Hmm ok, thanks for the replies!

Any other experiences trying both Tidal hifi and Spotify premium ? 

Didn’t mean to press awnsered again ffs lol 

I guess it's because I'm not an audiophile but.... I can't tell the difference. 

I made a SONOS playlist with two identical songs. One from Spotify and one from Tidal and I enabled random play. 

I cannot tell which is which. 

If it helps you feel better Tidal gives much more of the profit to the artists. Contemplating whether or not to go with Tidal Hifi.