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RE: Mastersound (MQA) on Tidal streaming

Posted by TubeDriver on January 7, 2017 at 08:57:40:
Do you have the MQA software decoding option set to disable?

As I understand it now, you need the following:

1) Latest Tidal app (not browser version)

2) with MQA software decoding enabled, non-native MQA DACs will get some benefit (ie hirez stream at 24/88 or 24/96).This is what I am seeing now.

3) for native MQA DACs, you can disable the Tidal software decoding and get the actual MQA stream which should light up your DAC. You need to insure that the Tidal app is set to allow exclussive access or your OS may up/down sample and effect the integrity of the MQA stream.