Streamer Advice

The reason I wanted to get MQA, is when I stream to my Sonos it gives me the options of using Flac or High using Tidal Connect. When just listening to streaming only from my Android phone Galaxy S22, it will let me select either Master, Flac, or High but when I stream to the Sonos I don't get the option for Master so I just thought the Sonos doesn't support it and I should upgrade my streamer.

This is why I wanted to upgrade.

MQA is not a format being adopted by the music industry, high resolution files are whats being used today. MQA is dead. Plus the limitations of the SONOS prevent it from streaming at the levels you want , upgrade your music streamer to a streamer that can handle the super high rez files. 

I updated my description in my profile so you know what's in my system.

Can you notice the difference between any of those formats, streaming a wireless signal to a $20 dollar speaker(s) inside of a $200-$400 plastic box? Don’t get me wrong, I love Sonos, and have a Play 5 that the wife streams Roon to, but I think a 320kbps Spotify stream is beyond good enough for that application: I don’t think I would be able to tell whether the Antipodes or my iphone is streaming to the Sonos- and not going to try.

Don't have a DAC, but have the Cambridge Audio streamer. It works, and sounds wonderful! Did a back to back with a WIIM, Bluesound, and Eversolo. 

The CA unit sounded the best out of all of them. It also supports MQA, it sounded very good until Tidal dropped them all. 

My mini review....

WIIM, sounds a little basic, nothing special

Bluesound sounds a little compressed

Eversolo sounds clinical

Cambridge Audio, just right, almost analog.