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RE: Mastersound (MQA) on Tidal streaming

" Yup my DAC (PS Audio PWD II) is definitely playing at 24/88 and 96k rates whenever a "Master" album is selected."

If you haven't got an MQA decoder than it simply cannot be. Are you looking at your PS Audio device's display? If so maybe it is picking up on a format "flag" in the stream? But it cannot be that data rate from Tidal without MQA decoding. Of course I am assuming that you have not, for example, selected 24/96 as the rate in, say, Windows sound on a PC as the PS Audio device will then be getting an upsampled stream.

If it does sounds better then normal then you are validating MQA's claim that even with standard reproduction an MQA Master encoded recording will sound better than CD. NB: this is because they claim that the process corrects errors caused by the digital filter used when mastering or digitising the original.

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