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Tidal stops streaming MQA titles?

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glc650 April 28, 2023, 9:25pm 43

Marian:

How do you know they don’t have a different set of files for each tier?

GoldenSound – 29 Nov 21

Tidal 'HiFi' is NOT lossless - GoldenSound

It seems that TIDAL's new 'HiFi' tier does not actually offer true lossless music for many tracks. I do some testing to show this.

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Tidal “HiFi Plus” Introduced TIDAL

So it seems after some testing, and if the signal path is correct, that if you setup a new Tidal sub to the HiFi tier expecting lossless 44.1/16 FLAC then you’re going to be getting something other than you bargained for. Whilst not completely consistent (some artists and albums behave differently to others), it does seem like the HiFi (non-MQA) tier can and does serve-up MQA streams. I asked the tester to repeat the tests with the infamous Led Zep MQA only catalogue and sure enough, he got spu…

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