![]() Tidal seems to be the only one's concerned about bandwidth eating into their profits, though, so instead of offering you the highest bitrate copy for one low price, they charge double for higher res capability, and find a way not to use more bandwidth, either. Streaming audio is NOT going to be a big factor in how much profit streamers make, compared to video. Audio is puny, and Tidal is charging more than Netflix, while at the same time using only 44.1kbps streams. Netflix streams 42 times as much data for it's 4k plan as 192kbps uncompressed files would take. 44.1 audio is like the smallest type of file after text files. Tidal is the only one that uses it, and they are also the only ones that charge double for higher res. MQA is a scam designed to promise audio streamers that they won't have to stream more than simple 44.1kbps. They aren't making the MQA codec available to people to further compress all our higher resolution FLAC tracks to the same size as 44.1 FLAC's. ![]() Now, they are going to have to find an excuse for people not to have needed a dac with a chip for everything to pass through in case it's Tidal's MQA that needs 'unfolding', which they promise is a clever way to compress your files transparently. They are using shady business tactics with MQA. I would prefer to see Tidal admit that MQA didn't actually work like they promised. Tidal has yet to actually talk about just streaming the original higher res files, which they can't prove they have original copies of until they do stream them. MQA has gone bankrupt, which must be because it's a false plan. More frequent updates on what things sound like, which is digital's problem in the first place. Anyways, right away after starting a higher res track on Qobuz, I could hear what I was not getting with Tidal's MQA. Audirvana seems to be the best sounding one so far, and they have incorporated Tidal and Qobuz. It seems that the player playing the audio makes the biggest difference. ![]() Finally, Qobuz came, and the default player is the least worst streaming player, and more importantly, Qobuz also works in Audirvana, the best sounding serious player. I had the same problem until 2 months ago, no Qobuz available, but Tidal's default player didn't sound as bad as Amazon's, and more importantly, Tidal also worked in Audirvana. ![]()
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