Tidal Master now avaliable for iOS

[MusicFidelity (Guy)]

Tidal’s ‘studio-quality’ MQA music now available on the iPhone

[Henry_McLeod (Henry)]

Updated my iPad yesterday, I can now select and play Masters. I presume this is a first unfold like the pc app.

[MusicFidelity (Guy)]

Yes, only first decoding 88.2/96kHz, Most iPad internal DAC runs at 48kHz, not even at 44.1kHz, so Roon has down-sampled rate to 48kHz. To get native output sample rate, you need to connect to an external DAC via lightning USB

[wizardofoz (Mr Fix It aka The Wiz)]

might not work well for the newest iPad Pro USB-C connected DACs…Ill try later maybe with my HA-2 asI will be traveling

[Chrislayeruk (Chris)]

My Explorer 2 cannot render the full MQA from the Tidal app on my iPad Pro. Roon/Tidal works perfectly.

[MusicFidelity (Guy)]

There’s is an issue on iPad Pro output via USB-C. iPad with lightning USB is not affected.

Fully Rendered MQA Audio (and DSD Audio) Not Available Through USB-C Port of 2018 iPad Pro

@support I am experiencing the identical phenomenon with my 2018 iPad Pro 12.9” and a new Dragonfly Red on iOS 12.1.1. I have tried both of Apple’s official adapters (USB-C Digital AV Adapter and USB-C to USB Adapter) as well as several adapters from Anker and iFi. However, they all yield the identical crackling MQA sound and rapidly cycling indicator color between magenta and purple. It seems as if the Dragonfly is trying to lock onto an MQA signal but cannot as the signal is badly distorted…

[Henry_McLeod (Henry)]

The Explorer 2 cannot be used to render, only to do a full unfold.