I have a BlueSound Node 2i and use Tidal. After I purchased my new speaker wires from The Cable Company, the sales person told me I should connect my BlueSound to my ARCAM using digital cable. He said the DAC inside my ARCAM was better than than the DAC inside the BlueSound. However, by using the digital cable I now only get 1/10 the unfold of MQA. He told me losing MQA is not a big deal and my system will would sound better than using my BlueSound by itself. If I am only getting 1/10 the unfold of MQA, does that mean I lost my high res quality sound. The problem with testing which sounds better is the time it takes to switch back and forth the way things are connected fast enough to compare sound quality.
I was having problems with my ARCAM and the ARCAM rep came out to troubleshoot. While there, he demoed QObuz. I thought QObuz sounded better than Tidal. Is that because QObuz does not fold their files in order to generate hi res files? I heard the reason why Tidal developed MQA was because internet speeds were slow and transporting hi res files was difficult. Perhaps this is why QObuz does not fold their files.
Hope I am making sense. This is difficult to understand.