I am experiencing signal break up and a stuttering sound when playing one album titled, "Eternal Light" by Morten Lauridsen.
I just listened to "Light Eternal", (not Eternal Light) and hear the same thing, however, I have no basis to compare because I don't listen to that type of music. It almost sounds like it's supposed to sound that way?
I also wonder if anyone can hear a difference when playing MQA Tidal recordings. For some reason I think I can hear greater clarity and a larger sound stage. Is it possible when playing my Bluesound Node 2i connected RCA to my ARCAM in order to get the complete unfold of MQA if I am hearing a higher resolution.
That's what MQA is all about, so yes it should sound better. Tidal used to have some of the same album in both CD and MQA, which made it easy to compare, but I just looked for some I know they had and they seem to have deleted the CD copies. Maybe there still are some?
The Node2i decodes MQA internally through it's DAC, then sends it out through the RCA analog outputs. That's how it works, so you're getting the full (3) unfolds and full MQA decoding.