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In Reply to: RE: Mastersound (MQA) on Tidal streaming posted by PAR on January 07, 2017 at 03:31:58
I'll be spending this weekend checking it out.do you have any articles or press release links that verify this?
Update, there's a lot of confusion about this here, I checked out the computer audiophile web site, lots more technical discussion on this there.
I'm updating my MacBook Pro to Sierra OS right now, I will do some listening this weekend.
I'm using Tidal Macosx app into Auralic Vega via USB. Should be ok, sounded ok just this morning was playing Black Sabbath, which I am very familiar with have lots of SACDs and CDs of their albums. Just want to update to newest OS if there were any sound improvements first.
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Thanks, should be no difference, Just for shits and giggles I got a Meridian Explorer 2 coming today from Amazon.
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If Tidal is decoding MQA in there app then you would not need the explorer. I still don't think this question is answered. We need the guys from Stereophile or absolute sound to tell us what is really happening with Tidal.
Alan
From a business standpoint, this would make perfect sense. I would rather collect revenue from licensing millions and millions of albums using MQA through streaming services than getting something from licensed DACs which is surely a MUCH smaller market?
Honestly I don't think they know either,
Getting great results with tidal on the Mac.
Cheers!
Tidal MQA files decoded by my Explorer 2 sound really good. Certainly better than the identical non MQA files. Don't know yet if it sounds better than my Audio-GD Master 7. Haven't had enough time to compare yet
Alan
Listening to Black Sabbath self titled, it is at 96khz here on my Auralic Vega in direct mode, do you have any tracks where all 3 lights light up and also have the blue dot saying it is a verified MQA stream on the explorer 2?I should get mine tomorrow weather permitting, there have been rumors the software decoding limits to 96 which would be the second light, and MQA hardware would have the third light light up when in direct mode if the stream is verified and indeed higher than 96khz using a proper handshake.
Again all speculation I have read.
Thinking you have to have MQA setup to pass through to bypass the tidal decoder and let the hardware do its thing.
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