200 albums featured on the front page, but most of the artists featured have multiple albums in MQA if your deep dive. For example, Madonna has “Madonna”, “Like A Virgin” and “True Blue” available in MQA. Other artists similar.
Hope they’ll enable a way very soon for us to filter all the MQA files.
Really? That suggests already a substantially bigger chunk of material.
Old stuff also available as pristine 192/24 downloads from HDtracks…
Yes. As far as I can tell, all the 2L recordings, for example, are MQA. I suspect many of the albums that are available high resolution elsewhere are now available as MQA streams - not going to dive through all of them to check LOL
Not surprising that you try to rain on everyone’s parade.
I won’t argue over the pristine jibe here as that will open old wounds. But I will point out the obvious that hires downloads from HDTracks each cost more than a single months Tidal HFI subscription and you get access to millions of other CD quality files as well. Indeed if you have Tidal already the MQA files are free.
Now that’s a bargain for something that most people think sound better than “pristine” hires files.
Would be better to stream just the pristine hires ones. No need to worry about decoders…
You clearly don’t have UK Broadband lol The lights would dim if we all streamed full high res over here, especialy when we don’t need to …
Go for it.
Indeed, I’m streaming T-Rex from the Tidal app on my NUC and my Hugo tells me it’s 24/192 unless I’m going colour blind. No mean feat even if MQA brought nothing else to the mix.
Hopefully if Tidal have software decoding Roon will soon follow suit.
Maybe this is what delayed 1.3 and is why Tidal in Roon suddenly started showing albums already in our collections?
All positive.
SJB
I can get 30+ Mbps 4G data on my mobile phones, theoretical maximum being 300 Mbps. Practically nowhere where it matters below 20 Mbps, wired or wireless. Netflix 4K video streams work fine. Next year first operator will start 5G service.
FLAC compressed 192/24 stereo is roughly 4 Mbps (Netflix 4K is 16+ Mbps). At home I have enough bandwidth to do 5.1 channel FLAC compressed DXD (352.8/24).
When I did comparisons, I could make a standard FLAC version of the original without quality degradation and have a smaller file (less bandwidth consumption) than MQA. Part of the reason is that FLAC (used by Tidal too) sees the MQA extra data as uncompressible noise. That would save some extra bandwidth.
And what did your ears tell you?
Is the difference REALLY audible?
T-Rex sound like you know it for long time and I would like to have some honest opinions on the sound improvement. The improvement a human being can hear, not a bat 
Try it for yourself and see. It’s nice to know you have the ‘Authenticated’ material the artist or owners intended and near as its possible to establish in any reasonable sense.
It either is or isn’t MQA no discussion.
Do that then and sell it to the world’s music industry.
Sorry, but that makes me laugh.
I don’t believe that anybody in the world knows what Marc Bolan intended on recording this T-Rex album in the 70s.
Maybe MQA sounds better (I don’t know at the moment, but I will check), but the ‘authenticated’ argument is questionable for stuff from Bolan, Coltran and other long death artists.
Are you using exclusive mode to the Hugo? I only ask, because I streamed Moondance @ 192k to my Meridian 818v3’s USB input using exclusive mode in the TIDAL app, and I only got 96k.
If you read my post I said the words Artists, Owners and Reasonable.
Work it out and enjoy the best music available to anybody at anytime in the history of recorded music.
Who knows what Michelangelo intended yet we restore and preserve, don’t we?
Straight off am I hearing things I’ve never heard before, well no. does it sound good, well yes, but this album usually does.
Okay, usual caveats, it wasn’t a blind test and wasn’t volume controlled I listened to Get it on and Life’s a gas, back to back to back from Tidal master quality and from my NAS.
They are obviously 2 different masters as they volume is quite different on both.
Get it on sounded better on MQA, Life’s a Gas, from the NAS.
I’m no good at audio descriptions and my audio memory is notoriously short. It’s certainly not night and day to my ears but then this is my reaction to most hi-res I have heard. I think mastering plays a huge roll that can’t be undone my any amount of resolution.
I’m very open to this being an incremental positive and will enjoy playing with it. Marrakesh Express is sounding very good as I type.
Sorry I can’t pronounce judgement to make everyone sleep easier.
SJB.
I haven’t seen over 24/96 in exclusive mode either.
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I am using exclusive mode but the Hugo is quite obtuse in the way it indicates frequencies.
and it is at an angle that can make it hard to see, but it certainly looks more blue than green. (Caveat - my Dad was green blue colourblind. ).
EDIT.
My daughter tells me it’s the 176.4 light or somewhere between that and the 96, so perhaps I’m mistaken.
SJB
Are you decoding in the app or using MQA pass through to decode later ?
That will make a difference.
