[Andrew Rieger]

Are all Tidal tracks using non MQA certified DACs showing up as 24/96?

 

[peterinvan]

 
Using Win7 PC Tidal app, with passthrough, but my Meridian Explorer does not light up (blue).
 
The same album in Roon lights up Blue/White/White

 
Strange... at 48kHz/24bit I get all three LEDs.

 

[canali]

All Three Major Labels, Pandora and RIAA Announce

Support for Hi-Res Audio Streaming

 
http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7647454/major-labels-pandora-riaa-announce-support-hi-res-streaming-mqa
 
2017 could be a good year for us....shape of things to come if it takes off?
even at CES there is supposed to be some 'high res' music booth that is
made of up people from various companies involved in trying to promote it and make it more mainstream.

 

[peterinvan]

Tidal MQA works, but only through ROON...

I tried the new Masters using the Windows desktop, but could not get my Meridian Explorer2 to light up. So I tagged the new MQA albums in Tidal, switched to Roon, resynced to Tidal. Now I get the three LEDs to light up on the DAC, and play MQA.

Listening for a while before deciding on SQ improvements.

EDIT:
Van Morrison's Moondance: the LED lights show Blue/White/White. Other albums show just Blue/White

 
OK.. I got Windows Tidal to play through my Explorer2 DAC... it's in the DAC settings   Setup>Streaming>DAC...
 

 

[canali]

new and interesting from Chord:
Poly: wireless streaming module
Wireless streaming module
http://www.chordelectronics.co.uk/product/poly/
 
new related threads on them:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/831347/chord-electronics-poly-add-on-microsd-and-advanced-wireless-module-for-mojo#post_13145452
 
  
http://www.head-fi.org/t/831348/chord-announces-poly-hugo-2-and-blu-mkii-ces-2017#post_13145488
wonder if it'll work for Tidal, too....
 
for poly: Poly will be available later this year for £499 GBP.
 
 

 

[edwardsean]

I was really glad to hear about the arrival of MQA to Tidal. It seems like it was a long while ago since they first announced that Tidal going in that direction. 
 
The only thing is that though they are highlighting the 30,000 tracks available in Master quality, I can only find about a hundred or so under the Masters section in What's New. Are the rest being rolled out over time or am I missing some other section where the other Masters quality tracks are located?

 

[uhhmike]

what Dacs are you using for mqa? My schiit bf wont do it

 

[Floss99]

When I stream a master album, the bit-depth always resorts to 32-bit rather than 24-bit (shown on Audio midi on my macbook). Not sure why this is the case. I'm using the mimby so a non-MQA compatible dac.
 
Is anyone having this problem?

 

[WhiteKnite]

what Dacs are you using for mqa? My schiit bf wont do it

My modi is working for it... when it actually works.  Only way to get windows 10 to recognize it is to plug it in during a reboot just as the windows loading screen ends, and then about 60% of the time it will work.  

 

[uhhmike]

O thought schiit doesn't support mqa and so their dacs babe recognize it? I use mac btw

 

[WhiteKnite]

I have no way of confirming the bitrate but the MQA pass through mode makes music. If it is sending 24/96 to the Modi I assume that is what it is outputting

 

[bigbeard]

I have a Bifrost Uber connected through toslink.
 
I use VB audio hi-fi cable to avoid any windows or soundcard processing.
 
What settings should I use for output? 24bit, 96khz?
 
Should I enable passthrough? I did, and music is playing fine, with the master's icon lit up.
 
It evne works directly without using VB Hifi software. Have my spdif output set to 24bit 96khz.

 

[WhiteKnite]

Anything above 24/96 should be fine. You just want to avoid downsampling

 

[Cocoanino]

Guyys this is big improvement I am totally blown away how good is that. I can't say it, just maybe comparing it with something I never tried like sitting in the newest Lamborghini..... It's how the sound is intended, it's so steril and nice wooow. I didn't click this tick that passthrough because it disable software decoding which I think is not okay to have. I just have exclusive mode ticked. I really need to write feedback to Tidal. and @canali you're right 

 

[bigbeard]

Why use software decoding, as opposed to allowing your DAC to do it?
Either way, I agree, the audio difference is quite discernable, more so than going from Spotify Premium to Tidal Hifi; Master's sounds very spacious and pure. I heard it instantly.
 
Amount of content is low...not too many albums.