Tidal Masters post possibly hundreds of Universal Music Group titles


The first fruits of the announcement earlier this year that UMG will support MQA are now appearing, totally unheralded as Master recordings on Tidal. I have found dozens and dozens of titles from artists sprinkled throughout their catalog. At this point it seems mostly focused on the Capitol pop catalog and the DG classical one, although I have seen a few Philips and Decca recordings, too.  The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, The Band, Nat King Cole, Glen Campbell, Iron Maiden, Tina Turner, Daniel Barenboim, Herbert von Karajan, Gustavo Dudamel...just to name a few.

Preliminary auditions are also favorable. Listening to  "The Band" right now. "A drunkards dream" indeed.
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Not sure I buy the MQA logic (is it really worth dropping bit depth to get higher sample rate than 48KHz) but my hats off to Tidal because the Masters selection does have some well mastered stuff!

I now use Roon to control Tidal and my own music collection. I love it.