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Tidal class-action

MQA declared bankruptcy.  I smell the fear of a class action lawsuit against Tidal.  We could do that.  Tidal has 8 million subscribers, we don't know how many or how long they all were paying double by subscribing to the 'nobody can prove Tidal has any tracks higher than 44.1khz' plan.  They probably have lots of people on phones who haven't even heard of MQA who trust them and wanted the one that sounds better.  They're right not to have to listen to any talk about MQA if they want the plan that sounds better.

MQA means you can't prove the file is an original copy or not. That Beethoven track you like it says is 192 could actually be Dua Lipa at 11khz.

The bankruptcy move was probably to protect themselves from Tidal, who is the receiver of people's funds.

 

audioisnobiggie
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I'm a Qobuz subscriber so i don't have a dog in the MQA fight but I have a question I hope someone here can answer. Qobuz transmits files in the FLAC format which allows various lossless compression levels. Does Qobuz compress its FLAC files to save bandwidth?

I did a search and I can't find anywhere that addresses this question. BTW, when I ripped my CD library I used the zero compression setting in dbPoweramp because I don't want the processor to work any harder than it has to when it plays the files.

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click this username’s info... @audioisnobiggie

joined just this week, all 30 axe-grinding posts right here  🙄

audioisnobiggie OP
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It won't have costed much for the gearmakers of gear cheap enough to use the chip to have put it on there.  They can't cost too much, you can get the dac's for only 300.  Then it will unfold hidden data that takes no size, instead of upsamplnig.

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juss49:

I haven't had much to complain about, until mqa.  I guess I could start another thread telling people I love mqa unfolding, so that I'm more popular.

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nyslkye:

Why only 2.79, when people have been paying an extra $10 for years?

My hearing is broken if I think higher res sounds better?

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