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In Reply to: RE: Of course Tidal is decoding MQA... posted by PAR on January 06, 2017 at 03:06:47
thanks for that, I just cancelled tidal again after signing up yesterday. good to know, I'm not buying into MQA, especially for the very few albums they got there.
it did sound pretty good, but knowing this and the limited availability of albums, just not worth it IMHO.
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Ther will be lots of MQA albums on Tidal. It just started and it is already increasing. Also please understand that Tidal is not decoding MQA
Go to the MQA site and they make it very clear that you need an outboard dac with a built in decoder
Alan
Ok, something may not be working as it should.I just compared a Master album on Tidal with a CD burned and replayed through JRMC21, Natalie Merchant's TigerLilly. The song "Seven Years" sounds completely different. The Tidal Master version has much more bass emphasis, this extends up though the vocals, it almost sounds blurred? Natalie Merchant sounds like she has a chest cold on the Tidal Master version.
I wonder if there is some initial "handshake" or flag in software thats alerts the DAC about resolution and pkayback setting? My DAC seems to be having a hard time, it makes a bunch of clicks (analogue relays) and then a high pitched whining noise but then plays normally. I have never seen this behavior before on standard 16/44 or hirez tracks.
Edit: I just checked and there are two version of this album available on Tidal. The Master version sounds very different from my ripped CD version. The normal HiFi (16/44) sounds MUCH more like my ripped CD version. So, the Master version is not replacing the 16/44 version, they are both still available on Tidal and the Master version sounds very different. I am not sure yet which I subjectively prefer (at least on this album)? Some of the other Master recordings sound good to me.
Edits: 01/06/17
Update, a quick comparison between the Master version and the normal Hifi version on Tidal has revealed that I prefer the old Hifi (16/44) version compared to the Master version. Bummer.
on a MQA Master version?
Anything like the normal 16/33.1 HiFi version?
OK I got the blue light working again on my Explorer2
I had to click on the "Use Exclusive Mode" settingWhat is srange is
that now the blue light comes on whether passthrough is on or off. Who knows
Alan
Got it. I think the sound is better even without an MQA DAC, so that is nice regardless of whatever I an listening to.
The sekection has orobably doubled again since this morning, it is rapidly growing. The current collection is a broad mix from hiphop to jazz, country, rock and classical.
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