Tidal sound quality

I hear a strange noise coming from Speakers on this recording from Tidal:

Shostakovich Piano concerto nos 1 & 2 by Denis Matsuev (SACD)
Track number 8 at 1:38' - 3'
Is anybody else hearing this? Any idea what this might be?

ei001h09-09-2018 3:30am

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acman3 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 4,237 posts 09-09-2018 at 03:51am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I hear it on FLAC 44/16, so it is in the file. Some type of corruption in file?
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gsxr750ccs Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 25 posts 09-15-2018 at 08:29am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Tidal to me has some weird artifacts in their music in general that I don't really hear from other lossless digitization.
acman3 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 4,237 posts 09-15-2018 at 03:29pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Gsxr, this is a horrible scratching digital noise, and it definitely can hurt your speakers.
tdimler Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 132 posts 09-17-2018 at 08:48am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Wow....and I thought it was just me. I had it cranked up pretty loud listening to this on Tidal and thought for a second that I had a major system meltdown!

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