qobuz

Qobuz tends to do things differently from most of its rivals in the music-streaming world. The French service has been around since 2007 – that’s the same amount of time as Spotify – but only left its home borders in 2013, becoming the first CD-quality streaming service to hit the UK, before Tidal joined the ranks a couple of years later.

It was also the first to offer hi-res streams, via its Sublime service, before refining its offering with Sublime+, an annual-only