I have found I like Tidal Hi-Fi and do hear a difference with, as you say, only with better recorded music. Listening to Adele's "25" on CD or Tidal Hi-Fi sounds the same to me...crap. Great voice, lousy recording. Listening to Melody Gardot...completely different experience.
This is only on my home system, I switch to "standard quality" with mobile devices, to save on data rates and it sounds acceptable with my cheap headphones or in my car with the factory sound system. If fact, in the car the lower res still sounds better than Sirius XM radio.