And that you can actually hear, which in case of hi-res is not that obvious. Question is, how much of that hi-res we can really hear?Īt some point they finally started saying, that it’s mostly about mastering and doing some tricks to the sound, which make MQA sound more appealing. In a way MQA is not a real competitor for real hi-res from technical point of view. Too much talking hi-res and voo-doo, and not enough details. Well, seems they haven’t played it really well from marketing point of view. The more I read about the technicalities of MQA the more I realised why people argue over it and the less confident I was of what I was getting for the extra £7. So this is when I started looking more into Qobuz. I got increasingly frustrated about seeing something was MQA but it “only” turning out to be equivalent of CD quality (or arguably less if you consider it’s a lossy codec with whatever magic dust is otherwise sprinkled on it!). Would certainly be nice for the SA30,to support the different platforms “connect” options with their apps, but there are enough choices already for me for now that SA30 offers, unsure what happened to Amazon music support, I do think it would be wise to add it and Spotify connect tbh. I think Spotify are going to shake things up a bit, so I guess I’ll wait and see I am just saying that has been my experience and my choice, I don’t have an axe to grind like some people do, if Tidal were to offer something better pricing wise I might consider it again, but I doubt it. As much if this could have been about quality and differences in the original recording as it might have been about the format. The more I read about the technicalities of MQA the more I realised why people argue over it and the less confident I was of what I was getting for the extra £7.Īt times I can certainly hear a difference between the two platforms, but as to which is better I think that to some extent subjective, but I didn’t hear enough of a difference on top of my other thoughts to warrant the extra money. I tried out some higher than CD quality stuff on both platforms and initially settled on Tidal, personally for me whilst there wasn’t anything wrong with it per say, I got increasingly frustrated about seeing something was MQA but it “only” turning out to be equivalent of CD quality (or arguably less if you consider it’s a lossy codec with whatever magic dust is otherwise sprinkled on it!). Qobuz can also be cheaper if you are willing to pay for it for the whole year in one go, Qobuz Studio is £12.99 p/m versus the Tidal equivalent with the much debated MQA at £19.99. I think that must be country differences again. I also think it sounds good/great, so now question is, if Qobuz would be so much better to justify almost double the priceĪhhh.
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