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If I had an mqa dac with full decoding I would want mqa
Beta Test: TIDAL Hi-Res (i.e. Max)
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Are you serious?
Not yet, but it will come - not confirmed, but my personal opinion. I also reached out to BubbleUpnp and Heos on this.. Answers below.
BubbleUpnp:
Thank you for your interest in BubbleUPnP.
Yes, it will be supported in an update towards the end of November
heos:
Thank you for your request.
Due to frequent requests for Tidal HiRes formats in the HEOS app, we have forwarded the request to our development department.
If and when Tidal HiRes FLAC will be available in HEOS is not foreseeable at the moment.
So i am sure it will be supported in WHA in due course. Just be patient ;-)
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Please see comments #139 and #82 where it was confirmed
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Heos seems always to be very slow in catching up with new features, I wouldn’t hold my breath…
Why? what advantage there is in MQA over HiRes Flac? Mqa is lossy format and Flac is lossless
It’s a music file inside a zip then it decompress to save bandwidth.
Given today's available bandwidth, I don't see reason why to go with MQA but to be precise, it would not be a lossy format in the same meaning of Mp3 or AAC and although it's not "bit perfect", compared to master it comes from, it saves space selectively in bit range and sampling space not meaningful. It's still much better than a total lossy format and objectively not so far from original hi-res flac. Sure, they had to declare from the beginning what it was and not follow mystic and mystery path...
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Ok I understand your impatience
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I know that a new fw will be released for wiim mini for tidal connect . But again connect is unplayable . With upnp and mconnect it is rock solid . Ticket number :
After playing some songs it started disconnecting(pausing and resuming ) also on upnp .
Qobuz is solid.
JPLAY on tidal stable ( and very very clean sounding!)
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After playing some songs it started disconnecting(pausing and resuming ) also on upnp .
Qobuz is solid.
JPLAY on tidal stable ( and very very clean sounding!)
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but is this ticket number used to access the fw beta?
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restored to factory settings and deleted and reinstalled tidal app. Mostly fixed but still there are some stutters now and then
Disconnects started again for tidal both on connect and upnp
Noticed that it happens on max files .
Disconnects started again for tidal both on connect and upnp
Noticed that it happens on max files .
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Don't know if it's just a coincidence but all residual Tidal's songs still MQA that I meet, are all transported by files 44,1 16bit, that after first unfold, are 88.2. The others, coming with 48/24, then unfolded to 96Khz, are completely missing.
I can suppose that the first were derived from CD quality files and to preserve the magic numbers on dac display, tidal choose to keep MQA. The others presumably were from real hi-res files and conveniently are now presented in Flac.
I can suppose that the first were derived from CD quality files and to preserve the magic numbers on dac display, tidal choose to keep MQA. The others presumably were from real hi-res files and conveniently are now presented in Flac.
Yes tidal master are all 16/44 using mqa dac. If turn off mqa setting on app it will 96khz but dac still show 44.
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