iamoneagain Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 I’ve been testing Qobuz beta in roon last night. Love that it shows the file quality. I was easily able to compare Qobuz 24/96 vs Tidal MQA 24/96 unfolded by roon and sent to HQPlayer upsampled to 128dsd. Qobuz easily won. Heard finer details, soundstage bigger, and more air. MQA sounds like has a filter applied to it smoothing it over. Think sound is meant to get the last conversion from MQA dac to sound right. I do have an ifi micro that can do that, so might test fully converted MQA file vs 24/96 file with no upsampling. But so far based on how a normally listen at home, I’d have to stick with Qobuz. Only issue is their beta library is missing a lot of stuff I have on Tidal. Hoping that changes on official launch. I can then just rebatch Tidal to Qobuz in Soundliz and pull over all the additional added catalog. Too bad roon did add this kind of feature. Link to comment
Popular Post iamoneagain Posted February 22, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted February 22, 2019 Looks like they are making good on bringing in indie labels. Saw 4AD, Rough Trade, Beggers Banquet show up today. Love that you can view the label of an album and then it shows their full catalog. Found a lot of albums I never favorited on Tidal. I’ve been running Soundliz each Friday and then doing deeper diver look at the labels in the Qobuz. It’s kind hard of figuring out what the duplicate albums are about but can sort that out in roon and make the right one the primary album. left channel and dmackta 1 1 Link to comment
iamoneagain Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 So you can do a search by record label within Qobuz app. In roon it does a focus and only shows the albums you’ve already added. So I do have an issue with all the new additions, all the one that say hi-res, are only cd quality for streaming. Not sure if this is a mistake or these labels only allow hi-res downloads. If it’s the latter, heard this will be fixed in roon in the future. Kind of sucks to have so many hi-res albums the can’t be streamed. Link to comment
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