This month Tidal will replace all the MQA tracks with FLAC. If you like Apple Music then why not Airplay it over to the power node. Airplay will deliver CD quality.
HiRes audio over Bluetooth is really a misnomer. Bluetooth, even in the latest versions, doesn't offer a high enough bandwidth for even CD quality lossless audio. All the Bluetooth codecs are lossy, and worse still, most are optimised for latency, which requires them to be low complexity (SBC, all aptx variants and LDAC), making them less efficient, and having to throw away more audio information at a given bitrate. Even where the codec spec isn't optimsed for this (AAC), the implementation will be (ie, the Apple AAC encoder will opt for latency over quality). AptX and LDAC's "Hi Res" implementations try to compensate by using higher bandwidths than your typical MP3 or AAC, but even with LDACs 900kbps, pretty much maxing out Bluetooth's bandwidth, it will be a lower quality than CD. In order to carry any audio information above 20kHz it has to throw away more audio below 20kHz, which is generally the most important part of the music. Thankfully, your streamer isn't rellying on the Bluetooth for the audio part, so as long as you're using the speakers or using wired headphones you can benefit from better sound.
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MQA is a complete load of bollocks. Doesn’t even sound as good as CD
This month Tidal will replace all the MQA tracks with FLAC.
If you like Apple Music then why not Airplay it over to the power node. Airplay will deliver CD quality.
HiRes audio over Bluetooth is really a misnomer. Bluetooth, even in the latest versions, doesn't offer a high enough bandwidth for even CD quality lossless audio. All the Bluetooth codecs are lossy, and worse still, most are optimised for latency, which requires them to be low complexity (SBC, all aptx variants and LDAC), making them less efficient, and having to throw away more audio information at a given bitrate. Even where the codec spec isn't optimsed for this (AAC), the implementation will be (ie, the Apple AAC encoder will opt for latency over quality). AptX and LDAC's "Hi Res" implementations try to compensate by using higher bandwidths than your typical MP3 or AAC, but even with LDACs 900kbps, pretty much maxing out Bluetooth's bandwidth, it will be a lower quality than CD. In order to carry any audio information above 20kHz it has to throw away more audio below 20kHz, which is generally the most important part of the music. Thankfully, your streamer isn't rellying on the Bluetooth for the audio part, so as long as you're using the speakers or using wired headphones you can benefit from better sound.
So boring
Practice makes perfect….. 😊