Would like to give some early listening impressions listening to MQA files streamed from Tidal and listened to on A Meridian Explorer2 with MQA decoding and an Audio-GD Master 7 without MQA encoding
I listened to 6 albums where I had access to the Original album on Tidal and the same album encoded with MQA Spent most of the time with Fleetwood Macs Rumours and also listened to some Jazz, Classical and Movie music
The Results using an arbitrary rating of 100% as the best sound
Explorer2 ( Non Mqa album)----- 70%
Explorer2 with decoding ( MQA album)--------- 80%
Master 7 ( Non Mqa album)----- 90%
Master 7 ( MQA album)--------- 95%
Just my subjective opinions
I am assuming that Tidal is not decoding the MQA files
Alan
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Topic - Early listening impressions of Tidal MQA - ahendler 16:58:45 01/07/17 (15)
- Great list of MQA albums on Tidal - RJeff 18:04:23 01/21/17 (2)
- RE: Great list of MQA albums on Tidal - ahendler 19:04:14 01/21/17 (1)
- RE: Great list of MQA albums on Tidal - RJeff 08:28:07 01/22/17 (0)
- RE: Early listening impressions of Tidal MQA - jazz1 01:20:58 01/13/17 (0)
- RE: Early listening impressions of Tidal MQA - mstratil 13:44:58 01/11/17 (0)
- RE: Early listening impressions of Tidal MQA - mstratil 06:50:18 01/11/17 (2)
- RE: Early listening impressions of Tidal MQA - PAR 09:25:29 01/12/17 (0)
- RE: Early listening impressions of Tidal MQA - ahendler 10:18:58 01/11/17 (0)
- Thanks... - Ivan303 17:34:14 01/07/17 (6)
- RE: Thanks... - ahendler 19:52:27 01/07/17 (4)
- My experiments reveal with the explorer 2 you indeed go above 96khz - bullethead 10:44:12 01/08/17 (3)
- RE: "2L Norwegian album"... - Ivan303 10:48:24 01/08/17 (2)
- RE: "2L Norwegian album"... - bullethead 10:52:02 01/08/17 (1)
- RE: "I was the first person to let everyone know about radio.cesnet.cz..." - Ivan303 12:05:31 01/08/17 (0)
- RE: Thanks... - ahendler 18:29:23 01/07/17 (0)