did you chuck out all your CDs or something?
Audiophile albums
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savoloysam
Standing on the edge of the Hoover Dam
Nope it's taken me years to build up my CD ollection and not everything can be found in Hi Res or at all on some streaming apps. I now use streaming as an addition to my CD's. It's really handy late at night being able to play whatever springs to mind without having to dig up the CD and fucking about putting it on.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I don't even notice the difference between CDs, vinyl (apart from surface noise) and mp3, not matter how many kbps. Think you need to train your ears for that sort of thing. Or have amazing kit.
savoloysam
Standing on the edge of the Hoover Dam
True you need a half decent set up to tell the difference and to reap the benefits. In my case I have the Marantz KI Pearl lite amp (now rebranded as the PM8006) played through Mission QX2 speakers. £1300 worth of equipment. Sounds even better from the amp into my AKG reference headphones. I'm hearing music like I've never heard it before.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
What cables have you got connecting all that together?
savoloysam
Standing on the edge of the Hoover Dam
What cables have you got connecting all that together?
I made my own out of old pieces of brushwire.
Yeah, MQA is proprietary bollocks.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
I've been looking at tidal as my new DJ kit can stream tracks off it for me to mix natively via wifi, and I'm a hardcore plex user and its integrated in that, so I followed some instructions to get it cheap by using a VPN to trick it into thinking I'm in argentina and now its saying $69 a month for the premium subscription, so I've fucked that off pretty rapidly.For anyone confused but interested in MQA and how to get it.....
It's a Hi Res file format that is compared to the masters that are produced in the studio. Whereas even CD quality still has some form of compression. MQA is designed to sound as near to the studio masters as possible. The MQA files are authorised from the artists and studio producers themselves.
To get them you need a Tidal Hifi subsription (the top tier available) and you need something that can feed the full file format throught to your hifi (a decent stereo amp is recommended. If you are playing music through an Alexa type speaker you're wasting your money)
To play full MQA you can purchase something expensive such as this NODE 2i
NODE 2i
Or more cheaply you can also stream from your phone but your phone must have Hi Res audio support and you need to purchase a USB app (USB audio pro and then an in app MQA support codec - Costs less that £10 all in) from the play store. I've gone this route and have bought the the IFI zen DAC for £129. This fully converts MQA into my analogue amp.
Much easier though is to download the tidal app onto your laptop or PC and stream via USB into your amp or DAC. The desktop app itself will convert the MQA file for you.
You can trial Tidal Hifi £4 for four months..
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SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Had a quick look at Tidal. It has expertly curated playlists apparently. So presumably designed for people who demand high quality sound, but aren't that fussy about what the actual sound is and are happy to let some expert algorithm choose it for them.
Steel Icarus
an attempt was made
The Cult's Electric sounds terrific.
danski
Half moon dog
Yeah, She Sells Sanctuary sounds amazing when it kicks in, full blast.
I realise it’s not on that album (now) but still
Last weekend i listened to Beatles vinyl White album - the song Revolution (slower version than the hit single). Tis meticulous, real spatial width and depth, smashing bass, tremendous drums from Ringo (i assume?) and sweet harmony from the boys. Great rock song to reveal your systems qualities and inadequacies. my oh my they were good those scouse boys.
