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In Reply to: RE: Are they adding Masters to Tidal? posted by zacster on February 04, 2017 at 11:34:53
as to when the total approaches 0.01% of available content.
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I doubt I'll live long enough to ever get to listen to THAT large a percentage of all music ever recorded, so what's your point?
One great recording makes it all worth while (as long as someone else is paying the cost of producing it, of course)
I know record collectors who have 10's of thousands of LPs, who have collected records their who lives and yet they will admit that they've only scratched the surface of what is possible to own and the STILL hang out in record shops!
0.01% of available content indeed!
I won't be constantly investing thousands of dollars to buy a new DAC with the latest trick processor. It would take leveraging quite a bit of my library to make such a move.
and the STILL hang out in record shops!
Such does not require replacing their playback equipment in order to purchase another album.
What I have heard so far is pretty good, albeit only three or four titles I'm interested in. When played side by side with the standard 16/44.1 'HiFi' version this 'Master' version sounds better.
That with a 'multi' thousand dollar, 'multi' PCM1704U-K based 'multi-bit' DAC. ;-)
a software only solution is not a full MQA implementation. If it were, whey then would there be *any* need for an MQA capable DAC? Riddle me that, Batman.
Enjoy your four titles. I'm hard pressed to find any that I would listen to on a regular basis. They've got Iron Butterfly, but not In A Gadda Da Vida . :)
There are 2 enfoldings that happen in MQA. The first is information from 24 to 96khz. The Tidal desktop player unfolds this information. The second folding is everything above 96KHZ. To unfold this you need a dac with MQA decoding. Even though this last folding is basically noise Bob Stuart says it does make an audible difference. I can't tell because the dac I have with MQA (Meridian xplorer2) is inferior to my non MQA dac (Audio-GD Master 7). The master 7 sounds better with MQA files than the Meridian.
Alan
One must replace their DAC in order to hear oldies rock & roll at their best!
There may be NO advantage sound-wise that justifies encoding to higher sampling rates with older recordings.
it's not a question of "higher sample rates". Presumably, Meridian "recaptures" lost timing information in a revolutionary way. :)
or the original encoding system used by the record label?
That WOULD apply to recordings that are being re-masstered from analog tapes and then digitized, I suppose.
Even when they don't know the original ADC they have a general algorithm that takes the most common factors of the original recording equipment and still improves some timing issues
Alan
I think I correctly understand that one must have an MQA enabled DAC in order to experience the full deal.
And I'm not ready to buy another DAC for a piddling amount of content, little of which I listen to.
I just found out the DragonFly I bought to try this out doesn't produce enough power to drive my main system without having all the power supply noise get amplified as well. A high-end external DAC was never on my radar.
So back to vinyl for me too. I'm still going through my sister's 200+ collection that she gave me, many of them mint. It looks like my ex brother in law bought a bunch towards the end of the vinyl days and then lost interest and they sat in these same boxes when they bought their house in 1990 or so. Aja, Joshua Tree, Graceland, Miles of Aisles, Who's Next, to just name a few that were totally mint. They had "theNicePrice" stickers on them from the closeout days.
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