Favorite service for streaming high resolution music?

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2FlyingYorkies

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There are a number of free and paid services out there claiming to offer streaming of high res music now. Which are you actually using, and why?

Note that I consider hi-res to be anything above 16/44.1, but given the preponderance of services that max out at 320Kbps lossy files, I suppose we can consider 16/44.1 lossless as part of the discussion. I think the higher-than-CD quality portion of the discussion is more interesting, though.

Tidal is the obvious starting point, but their Masters service is MQA only, and only works with the desktop version of their app. Everything else is still 16/44.1 FLAC.
 
tidal has very poor choice of the stuff i like i.e berlin school . therefore i have to make do with spotify premium which is fairly good
 
2FlyingYorkies said:
Tidal is the obvious starting point, but their Masters service is MQA only, and only works with the desktop version of their app. Everything else is still 16/44.1 FLAC.
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That statement is not totally accurate. There several DACs that are able to take the Tidal MQA tracks and convert them to resolutions beyond 44.1.
Mytek, Meridian, PS Audio (I believe) and other manufacturers make DACs that can do this now.
 
nicoff said:
That statement is not totally accurate. There several DACs that are able to take the Tidal MQA tracks and convert them to resolutions beyond 44.1.
Mytek, Meridian, PS Audio (I believe) and other manufacturers make DACs that can do this now.
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The Aurender app can output MQA at 24/48.
 
nicoff said:
That statement is not totally accurate. There several DACs that are able to take the Tidal MQA tracks and convert them to resolutions beyond 44.1.
Mytek, Meridian, PS Audio (I believe) and other manufacturers make DACs that can do this now.
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Good point - DACs are starting to appear that make it unnecessary to use the desktop app for Tidal/MQA.

Sounds like there may not be as much market penetration of high-res streaming as I thought there might be. Talking to my local dealers, you'd think that all anyone did anymore was high res sources from online, but I suppose they're trying to sell DACs, eh? :)
 
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