![]() The part I was not aware of was the conversion of points to a SIN wave. I think I cared, but am now pretty convinced I shouldn’t. I’m using the Chord Qutest which does not do the MQA unfolding. That is a comment on me as much as the setup. ![]() The net is, I can’t much tell one over the other. Monty is very compelling and easy to listen to. I just spent the last hour listening to the videos. I have both Tidal and Qobuz (I just used NordVPN to sign up) and it streams fine to the USA without a VPN. A better mix is a better mix however it is properly encoded for storage or transmission and however it is properly reconstructed for playback. They don’t sound better because they are 96k/24 but because Giles Martin had better tools than George Martin with which to equalize and mix the original session tracks into a stereo record. The Beatles reissues show this in spades. Many of the apparent benefits of newer high res recordings result from going back to the original tracks, cleaning them up, and remixing them more skillfully than the original engineer could given the studio tools of the day. Mike Moffat of Schiit talks about this in the interview article Raising the sampling rate above the Nyquist frequency lets saner filter designs be used to band limit the signal being recorded and to reconstruct the audio for playback. Oversampling is used because the band-limiting and reconstruction filters realizable at the Nyquist frequency ring and introduce phase shift in the passband. The link leads through a non-mathematical review of the theory of digital signals and the practical implications and realization of digital signal recording and reconstruction to analog. ![]() I changed something so it’s got to sound better. I would also like to exclude a general format discussion I am well aware that MQA might have some lock-in effects and is not open source.īe advised that placibo effect is always lurking to mislead us. I would like posts only from people who actually listened and compared in a solid set-up. Margo Price, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter -> was a tie, no difference.Adagio -> MQA sounds better as it is more relaxed Víkingur Ólafsson, Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974, 2.The Doors, Riders in the storm: MQA better -> sounds a bit more realistic (the rain drops). ![]() The results here was either a tie or slightly tilted towards MQA. I only asked them a simple question: does one sound better or do they sound the same? They were not forced to pick sides. They don’t have any clue about file formats and I didn’t elaborate on the setup at all. After comparing over 50 songs over several hours now (Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock) I would have to call it a tie with maybe an even so slight advantages towards MQA.Īs there is probably expectations bias involved (no blind test) I recruited my wife and younger daughter as well. To be honest my expectation was that Qobuz will win hands down as my Devialet DAC can not unfold MQA further and the uncompressed HiRes files from Qobuz should have the theoretical advantage. As the Devialet is not MQA certified the MQA files are unfolded within Roon (Only first unfold). I don’t use any DSP or filters and the sound is played over my B&W 802 D3 speakers. I have been playing around with this for the last days streaming tidal and qobuz over the Roon/AIR-integration (asynchronous, bit-perfect) to my Devialet Expert 220 Pro. Making sure that the respective album release dates at both services are closely aligned (within 1-2 weeks) should also ensure that the releases come from the same master. Now that Roon offers Qobuz integration it has become easy to do a SQ comparison between Tidal MQA or Qobuz HiRes.
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