![]() ![]() Many of its rivals now offer both CD-quality and hi-res streams. I really think MQA is a step there, not the perfect medium, but the step in the right attraction.Tidal, Apple Music and Amazon Music HD still take the top three spots in our best music streaming services guide, because although Spotify is outrageously popular (and its newest AI DJ feature is proving just as much of a hit across the pond as it is in the US), it's still limited to lossy, compressed audio files. And that is being able to hear the full range of sounds, and voices the artist have intended portable, and affordable. The future is here, and it's a demand for the next in audio quality. You'll be able to hear alot more as you go up in degrees of impedance as you try out DACs with different approaches on Amplification, and audio conversion. As that is what MQA does right from the studio.įorget about sampling rate, or Bit-rate (after a threshold), time smearing is what our human ears can really take, and understand with incredible accuracy, and appreciation. They're consistently fine tuning song per song, and updating the time smearing technology on each track. My thoughts on UAPP and Tidal MQA unfolding is that since MQA is directly working with Tidal. Really raising the floor closer to the ear, you could say. I personally think the overkill THX Onyx Amplifier does such an incredible work at driving everything it can for even the lower spec headphones or IEMs. Glad to see alot more folks lovin' on the THX Onyx! I took a leap on it when it came out, and have been riding on an entirely different experience. Personally I think UAPP is great and worth it, I use tidal for Android auto, wireless earbuds at the gym and other stuff, when I sit down to really listen and sink my teeth in I use UAPP, because you get tidal access, Qobuz access and you can import anything else locally, like I buy FLAC music from HDtracks and import it and bam, just works. Yeah that's my predicament as well, if I felt that quality was exactly the same and I couldn't hear a difference at all I'd use tidal exclusively, like you I love the daily mixes, I can have everything downloaded and music discovery on tidal is amazing, as far as I've seen those aren't active through UAPP, it's close but not feature parody. Yeah I don't know if it's a tidal or android quirk or if it's meant to be that way but it's the same for me, if I want to use my dac with anything else but tidal, I have to decline tidals request to use it and then it works in stuff like YouTube or Netflix. If this is true I'll definitely check that out and compare vs Tidal app. I've only used it for local files on my phone. I didn't realize until reading this post that UAPP can act as a wrapper for Tidal. I know a low of audiophiles like to shit on MQA, but I think it might have a place and offer some value in lower cost equipment where bandwidth may be limited. D amps have their place.īut I've been using Tidal in exclusive mode and love the MQA sound out of Onyx. Not that Class D is illegitimate in any way either. But no, according to people more educated than I on amp design, it's a kind of variant on a class A/B amp (I'm oversimplifying because the details are over my head). I suspected based on it's crazy energy efficiency and power output, that THX may have just created a form of glorified Class D amp. I'm no engineer but I talked to an audio engineer about our natural skepticism with "revolutionary new amplifier technology". But I think THX is really onto something with that AAA amplifier topology. I have THX Onyx and love it! I did a review of it online, unfortunately no measurements. I'm sort of in the opposite side of the same boat. ![]()
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