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Paul with PS Audio does a video on MQA, one of my favorite audio YouTube personalities, great channel. MQA is a fantastic sounding high quality digital format that solves some bandwidth problems that "DO" absolutely 100% still exist in modern network environments. People that poo poo on MQA are measuring rather than listening. Nordost Flatline cable, various Chord RCA interconnects I have some balanced cables on the way to see if this brings further improvements! Of course, I still prefer he sound of lps but MQA brings a very high percentage of the analogue experience for me.Ĭambridge UXCHD transport (Blueray audio/ cd) It also sounds superior to SACD, DVD-A and Bluray Audio on my system (which I still enjoy). Straight out of the box, it offered an improvement over the Vault in terms of soundstaging, imaging and detail (via USB from pc).
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Just bought an external Chi-Fi MQA dac (S.M.S.L SU 90) which is currently burning in. Simply the most "natural", musical digital format I have heard to my ears/ on my system. A clear hierarchy for me, with MQA from TM coming out tops. I have run a Bluenote Vault for over 5 year, blown away first by the sound of cd flac, then hi res flac, and finally Tidal Masters since last September. Time for some Search FAQ reading (if Amazon provides such a FAQ).įirst time poster here, thanks for having me! I haven’t figured out the search tricks needed to find some things that exist there but that just don’t come up in conventional artist/track name and album/artist name searches. The Amazon HD UI and search engine are IMO as terrible as others have already posted. I think that clearly indicates Amazon Music HD is not at all 100% HD by any means, but rather HD enough to warrant a lot of interest. So far, about half of the 16/44 tracks from TIDAL (that I’ve listened to so far) are coming up as either 24/48 or 24/96 on Amazon HD (according to the Brooklyn DAC+ data screen), with the balance still at 16/44. The next step is to check Amazon HD periodically for the existence of previously missing tracks. Or maybe the FreeYourMusic app has been rev’d to dig deeper into the metadata as various streaming service APIs are exposed (or reverse-engineered) more extensively. My assumption is that this most recent experience of mine indicates that Amazon has improved its Music search somewhat so that unwanted and/or inappropriate substitutions don’t take place because the metadata from each TIDAL track is matched more carefully with the metadata from tracks on Amazon. Just missing tracks that don’t yet exist on Amazon Music HD. MQA and many other things in high-end (and not-so-high-end) audio fall into that category: promises that shout loudly on papers covered with advanced-looking technical presentations, and cleverly prepped and deviously structured listening demos in which listeners never know the actual music sources (or what has been done to them), all of which fall apart and are put to the lie under even only the most civilized, fairly structured independent comparison listening sessions.Ĭlick to expand.So far I’ve only checked a handful of transferred playlists this morning, but there haven’t been any substitutions. The only difference is that he's lighter in the wallet because he spent money on products made of clever marketing, aspirational suggestion, excited testimonials and nothing in the way of technological advancement actually bearing on improved music quality. If the end goal is ultimately music enjoyment, the reality is that placebos and biased expectations wear off leaving the audiophile with the same problem he had before.
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Click to expand.I agree with - It's better to leave any discussion (e.g., to listen to some music) with a head full of rationality and facts rather a head full of nonsense and unsupportable beliefs.