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JBRADIO2 sound quality

I have a PS audio stellar gain cell dac/preamp and use Roon. To my ears the flac feed for JBRADIO2 (16/96) sounds better than Tidal lossless stream. I have compared exact same tracks and to my ears the JBRADIO2 feed sounds more dynamic and detailed. I am perplexed as to why this should be. Anybody else had the same experience? Any theory as to why?
johnmohr
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canibefrank
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I am not sure what format Tidal lossless is -  16/44?. I listen to the Master quality streams exclusively. There was a similar post regarding Paradise Radio flac streams sounding better than Tidal. I believe that Paradise Radio is baking some majik into the stream, some sort of aural enhancement. The streams do sound detailed and ultra separated with a super wide Soundstage. None of my source material including dsd files and high-rez sounds like the Radio Paradise flac streams. 
johnmohr OP
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I am thinking the difference has nothing to do with bitrate or codec because I can hear the difference on the lossy 320k streams as well. I suspect they are doing some kind of DSP that I mostly like. Kind of a more subtle loudness EQ. 
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