You're one of the fools who fell for the scam if you bought MQA gear. At best, compression will make it to identical to streaming the original higher res track. It never makes it to that. Switching to Qobuz, higher res tracks immediately gave me what Tidal hasn't given me yet. However, I kept Tidal's 44.1 plan for it's 8 custom and unique personalized playlists. That's exactly what I want from a streaming service. Now that Tidal says they're ditching My Queer Ambition and returning all tracks to the original higher res versions, I switched back to the 2x cost higher res plan, but so far there has only been MQA. Qobuz's single weekly personal playlist is full of crap I don't even listen to, and their browsing for more is worse than anybody's. However, their default player not only sounds the least bad of all the streamers, but it actually makes it to default players might not always have to be so bad. I want the default streamer's players outside of Audirvana to be good for while I play games, and for their browsing, which you can't expect Audirvana to keep up with for everybody. So, so far, Qobuz is winning the SQ battle, but I'm going with Tidal for it's 8 customized playlists no matter what. Maybe I'll get Qobuz again for a few more months, for the times I want to hear stuff I can search for in higher res, until Tidal stops ripping people off with MQA's proposed bandwidth saving scam.
What happen to MQA on Tidal?
After listening to Tidal only on my phone the last few weeks, I went to stream on my home system but soon realized all my MQA tracks were no longer showing up and the MQA parameters were absent in my streaming settings. I see Tidal is in "administration" (Chapter 11???). One of the main reasons I subscribed to Tidal was MQA and purchased a DAC that could decode the format. I think I should have at least been informed by Tidal if it was cancelling MQA. Any thoughts?
I know a lot of people hate (hated) MQA, but like any format I have listened to (Vinyl, CD, SACD, FLAC, MQA, etc.) , some things sound great and others on a plain old red book CD sounds better.
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@audioisnobiggie MQA (My Queer Ambition) HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! |
It's so good that they even make some 44.1 streams MQA 44.1 streams, so that it has to go through an extra chip that they claim makes it sound just like the original 44.1 track did. Next, they'll say that men are cheaper than women, and you should try them out, too, so that they can save money, while charging you double anyhow. |
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