MQA Discussion
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The newly remastered John Lennon Imagine is now available in MQA on Tidal.
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Randy Myers
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I have the SHM SACD of Imagine (of course ripped to the music server). Sound pretty darn good!
Does anyone know if Lumin has the ability to play stand alone MQA files from a NAS or is it strictly streaming from Tidal only when dealing with MQA?
I've been noticing there are a few audio download sites starting to sell hi-res MQA files for download.
Edit- never mind lol, I bought one and am playing it from my NAS to my A1 and it works fine.
I've been noticing there are a few audio download sites starting to sell hi-res MQA files for download.
Edit- never mind lol, I bought one and am playing it from my NAS to my A1 and it works fine.
Yes, as you've already found. In addition, Lumin will play MQA CD rips too.
chops
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Yeah, 95% of those MQA tracks are rap and hip-hop. Nothing most of us care about.
They're slowly releasing "good" music in MQA, but not enough soon enough as far as I'm concerned.
chops
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Me three.
One of the nice things about running on of these Bluesound Node 2's is that it fully unfolds MQA, and can also unfold the first half before letting it lose out of the digital out, so you can still listen to it via a regular stand alone DAC, or get an MQA DAC to unfold the other half.
Honestly though, the REAL reason I got the Node 2 is because it plays gapless! Very important to me since I listen to a lot of classical music. That and the occasional Pink Floyd album which also greatly benefits from gapless playback. The whole MQA thing is just a bonus for me.
still-one
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Mike
Not sure if your list is based of this unformatted version that is listed in alphabetical order. It can be loaded into a spreadsheet and formatted as required.
http://www.meridianunplugged.com/downloads/MQA_List.csv
Not sure if your list is based of this unformatted version that is listed in alphabetical order. It can be loaded into a spreadsheet and formatted as required.
http://www.meridianunplugged.com/downloads/MQA_List.csv
chops
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No I haven't. I didn't know there was some "running list" of MQA releases. I just go onto Tidal and start scrolling through the new MQA album releases. Granted, there's a lot of new "good" music coming out in MQA, but there's still quite the plethora of rap/hip-hop in there. Again, this is just from viewing the new album releases, not some list I know nothing about.
still-one
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The link to the list has noted in several forums and threads in the past. It is usually updated weekly. You may not be aware but the "Masters" list in Tidal is limited to about 450 MQA titles. A few new ones are added each week and approximatelhy the same number drop off. No one seems to know what criteria is used to determine what makes up that ~450 list of titles we are shown. It is possible that it is curated to show a grater proportion of rap/hip hop MQA titles than is available in general.
According to some statistics I have seen Rap/Hip Hop has passed rock to become the largest selling genre. Even if these sale numbers are skewed by a few blockbuster releases I would assume we would still expect to see a greater proportion of this genre being released going forward.
I don't follow the available MQA titles closely, but even I know there is a tremendous amount of classical and older jazz available as MQA on Tidal.
chops
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I still haven't found this "list" you're referring to. I've found a couple of lists, both on this forum and others, but most look like they haven't been updated since mid-2017. I must be missing something somewhere.
Thanks for the lesson on how those titles are posted and how they come and go on the "Masters" list. I too noticed that there were some albums that came and went.
No further comments on the whole rap/hip-hop thing for me. That genre is exactly why I don't listen to the radio anymore these days. All of the pop, rock and jazz stations are gone. They all, and I do mean all of them, have converted over to rap/hip-hop stations. There's only a couple of rock stations still, one of which is near impossible to pick up in my area, the other that plays all of that newer angry rock music stuff. And one easy listening station that fades in and out all the time. Oh, and a local country station that comes in loud and clear, that I definitely don't listen to. Anywho...
chops
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I noticed last night when I was doing a search on Donald Byrd, probably about half of his albums on Tidal are now MQA. I've noticed that with several other artists as well, just like my search for Rush tonight. Quite a few of their's are also MQA.
I now realize that I can't rely on just what Tidal posts in their "Masters" list.
List in CSV file (dated Oct 2018 at this moment, continually updated):
https://www.meridianunplugged.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=268318
The Tidal Masters folder is a really small set of human-edited recommendations only. There is no way to search for all MQA albums directly using Tidal.