TIDAL Master Quality


Who are 99% of remastered tracks on tidal so annoying both as a listening and sound stage experience.
What exactly is the point.?
Some tracks I actually don't even recognize the original production.

Thank god for vinyl.

J.
jpmusic
Streaming via Lenovo yoga tab pro to Bluetooth 4.0 with a Texas Instruments TI PCM5102A 32bit to an Audiolab MDac plus via Stereo RCA, or Digital RCA or Glass fiber Tosslink. to pair of Audiolab 8200mbs Monoblocks driving a pair of USHER Audio Mini Dancer II.
This set up is very good with std E Tidal tracks but I feel like I'm missing something huge with the Master E tracks which a lot of my favourite music seems to be converted to.
Some are superb I will admit.  For eg. All the Fleetwood Mac, Hillary Hahn, Dire Straits, Etc.
But.. Beatles, Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, Beach Boys, Tom Scott, First Aid Kit, Neil Young, aso are best kept on Std E or vinyl.! 
Maybe I need a better streamer.!
Or play around with the filters.
Or run TIDAL via pc or iMac 

Cheerz.
J.
It's the Bluetooth link. Need to get that stream to the MDAC by wire or WiFi. Most of the  benefit of MQA is lost using Bluetooth. Maybe in the future but not with 4.0 
I checked the review of your DAC. I did not see MQA mentioned in the review. Tidal Masters is MQA coding. I don't believe your DAC will properly unfold MQA coding.

Did I misunderstand, or are you trying to play MQA files (Tidal Masters) on a DAC that does not support MQA?


MQA file can still play through non-MQA DAC as 44.1kHz/16bit, or do 1st unfold to 48Khz/24bit (on PC). If you have a MQA capable DAC, you can either let DAC to do both unfold (to 96kHz/24bid) or let PC do 1st unfold and let DAC to the 2nd. I prefrer direct wired (no Wifi, No blue tooth)
Is this another one of those threads ‘I love vinyl and everything else is crap’.

Does all of your recordings sound awesome on Vinyl? I think not. Regardless of the format, the sound quality of any recording depends on the original master.

Whatever you do please don’t run TIDAL via pc or iMac. Get a all purpose built audio streamer and run it hardwired to your modem.