Full MQA music list.

@mr_m  & @jond - 
Gents - thank you.  Reassuring.  I didn't want to have to go out and get a new router or bang on the door of my ISP.  Dealing with them can be a bit frustrating until you get through to the right person.  

As jond noted, no problems with my ripped files.  I need to double-check with Spotify but I think no buffering issues with it.  My 1 year Tidal subscription that came with the Aries is about up.  It'll be aggravating to start paying and get this kind of performance.  

@ghosthouse  understood and I imagine Tidal will figure it out. Also kind of glad it happened in the sense of I realize we've been paying $10/month to rent the stupid gateway over 10 years that's $1200! (I don't pay the cable bill my gf does should have looked sooner lol). So a state of the art gateway for $178 will pay for itself in 18 months.

@ghosthouse & @mr_m

You may wanna read up on this thread about the buffering issues with Tidal.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/what-is-the-most-common-cause-of-dropouts-when-streaming-tida...

Like with all other media, just because it is MQA does not make it the best recording you can find.

I have plenty of examples where the original CD or Vinyl sounds better than MQA.

It mostly boils down to the mix and mastering quality....so YMMV between various MQA masters.

That said - the Deluxe Led Zeppelin MQA is a huge improvement on the multitude of releases over the years...

@lalitk 
Thanks for reminding me about that thread.  I read it and just checked my internet download speed (speedtestdotcom).  It came in at  60+ Mbps which seems okay though paying Xfinity for Burst which is supposed to be 150Mbps max tested direct off the ISP modem via ethernet cable, I believe.  My speed was wireless off an Airport Express router (and w/DirecTV, also wireless, recording a program).  Will review that thread again...see if there is anything else I can do on my end.  Kinda suspect it is Tidal since everything else runs "glitch" free.