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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
audioisnobiggie OP
82 posts
 

It’s a relief hearing you disagree with everything even mqa says it’s doing, moto_man. You should be asking for an unaltered simple 24/96 stream, not lossless, if you don’t like people messing with your stuff.

MQA would probably tell Jay-z that he could do something so that it wasn’t the same as oversampling, so that they could have their stories straight. If Jay-z isn’t in on it, his whole company sure got taken.

If Jay-z shoots the mqa creator, all the other guys like that will want to kill him because of it.

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jhconnor
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I enjoy Tidal. Personally, I have been pleased with MQA. I like Qobuz. Sometimes streams from Tidal sound better than Qobuz, sometimes Qobuz will sound better. Do I prefer vinyl- yes. I tell “most” (99%) guests, and they agree, if they had never heard my vinyl set up my digital would sound better than anything they’ve ever heard. Tidal does a better job for me creating mixes and suggesting new artists than Qobuz . Digital, no matter which platform (I use Spotify most frequently away from my system) is how I discover and sample music before I buy it on vinyl. 
 

I’ve never understood the vitriol that gets tossed around about MQA on this site. Seems like much ado about nothing. 

audioisnobiggie OP
82 posts
 

If you haven't yet discovered everything that was recorded on tape, wouldn't you still eventually rather discover the dac they play the music on for the conversion to vinyl that they all need now?

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curiousjim
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We have Amazon HD and Qobuz. I tried MQA through two streamers and two DAC’s and it sounded fine, but it was not a reason to go to Tidal instead of one of the others.

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