R1200CL wrote: > Tidal will not remove hi-fi. In order for MQA to work, it has to be > implemented two places as you probably know, so even if all Tidal was > MQA, you would still only get the old hi-fi. Actually it important to > understand Tidal will only support MAQ. This mean that they just > "transmitt" what has been offered to them from the record companies. > Right ? > > Also most Tidal is FLAC quality today. I hope you are not saying than > less than 99% isn't. It's rater the opoøsite. > (All Tidal is CD quality). > > Since takling about streaming quality. I'm using iPeng. I have several > times tried to convince Pippin to have a more easier way to show what > quality your stream is. With MQA even more important I think. We will se > what he comes up with. > He has given a solution that most likely will be available next year. > (You find his replay to me in his thread).
There are two dimesnions to this about 80% ort so of tidal is encoded as 16/44.1 lossles FLAC thats the music they have (for now ) and some washed up old mp3's . So these recordings stop at 20k . Is not the MQA "process" done from higer rez originals rigth ? it's not like most labels are going to re-upload millions of songs to tidal in higer rez to take advantage of this ? In the majority of cases because they could not do it even if they wanted to, their master is a 16/44.1 . Then we have actual soundquality of the recording itself they rarely challenge the 16/44.1 container they are held in, some older noisy recordings may be perfectly reproduced by properly dithered 13 bits or so in the best case . Due to the typical quality of typical recordings the 16/44.1 limitation is not actually a limitation it's actually more than enough to reproduce the content . Some of them can still sound great and wonderful in their own respect , but they don't challenge the media there released on (not like in the old days when cassette and vinyl did not represent what was on the master tape ) . I tend to think that attacking the medium is barking up the wrong three ? It is and audio gear company behinds it it's what they do, sell audio gear and software, but maybe not necessarily what we need . I do have respect for some of meridians ideas and products (se my signature) but some things they do baffles me a bit . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102648
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