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RE: Best way to set up Tidal & Dragonfly Black on a Mac?

I started playing around a bit with it. At 44.1 I would only get CD quality output, even on the hi-res. At 96 I definitely hear an improvement on the "Master" tracks. I'm thinking it should be either 88.2 or 96. It doesn't help that I can't find where Tidal displays the bit rate for the track.

I would hope that it would be able to dynamically alter the output based on the bitrate. And whether I should let the software unfold the first layer is still unclear, but Masters sound better with the MQA passthrough OFF as that way it does it in software, and lets the DAC interpret that as 24/96.

Tidal, MQA and USB DACS were not even on my radar until last week. I was content with streaming whatever straight out of my iPhone, Echo Dot or iPad into my system, usually Amazon or Spotify, or TuneIn radio. When I wanted quality I spun the vinyl.


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