The Computer Audiophile Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Looks like the mainstream press is also regurgitating marketing info. https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/3/11/18259957/tidal-master-quality-mqa-ios-support Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
Popular Post The Computer Audiophile Posted March 11, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 11, 2019 1 hour ago, new_media said: Basically, yes. Tidal's software performs the "first unfold" to 24/96, which is useless if your DAC doesn't support it and the signal will be downsampled to 48 KHz. That's why I say you are better off with native CD-quality rather than going through a cycle of pointless and possibly destructive upsampling and downsampling. OMG. I overlooked the stupidity of this. Record at 24/96. Lossy compress it via MQA to 24/48. Stream it to iOS and upsample to 24/96 then downsample to 44.1 or 48k because most people don't have an external DAC capable of 24/96. Brilliant. It would only get worse with wireless headphones. Ouch. MQA and Tidal are doing themselves no favors because people are going to say it sounds like crap. It can only sound like crap given how people use their phones (bluetooth, Apple dongle, etc...). 1 hour ago, danadam said: Not that I support MQA, but which recent DAC (by recent I mean last couple of years) doesn't support 24/96? Many of them, including the one included with all iOS devices. lucretius, Archimago, daverich4 and 2 others 5 Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
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