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In Reply to: RE: Tidal and Mqa posted by gsb on January 08, 2017 at 21:40:51
I'm fairly certain that an MQA enabled DAC is required to decode MQA encoded music.
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Ken Newton
Edits: 01/08/17Follow Ups:
That's not what I heard on computer audio site-could be wrong but hopefully not-something is different when playing in the master quality setting a master album-well informed opinions needed here
The MQA file is 24/96 or 24/88 not 24/48.
When you play a master mqa file to a non mqa dac you are hearing this 24/96 file which should sound better than a 16/44 file. To get information above 96khz such if the original recording is 192khz you need an outboard dac with mqa decoding. Soin reality Tidal is not decoding MQA
I'm sure as we go further Absolute sound and stereophile will give us more information. Basically master recordings on Tidal should sound better than standard non-mqa files and outboard dacs with MQA decoding will sound even better
Alan
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