Qobuz 24-bit Hi-Res streaming Sublime+

With the major music labels signing up with MQA, will DSD survive? Even Sony has sort of given up on it.
 
Well one requires extra licensing costs and "certification" and the other doesn't so I expect that at least for now DSD will continue to survive especially if all MQA has to depend on is Tidal. How long do you think the money behind Sprint will continue to prop up Tidal if they don't show the ability to make a profit If Spotify joins in with Qobuz in going in the other direction MQA may be the one on life support. The labels already have their foot in the DSD waters. Boutique manufacturers like Meridian, Aurender, MSB, and Brinkman will alone not make MQA survive as they don't sell enough units or have units in a "normal" price range. It will take the high volume DAC sales companies buying in to make MQA a success. I am not even going to discuss the sound as that is subjective and won't determine survival just like Betamax vs VHS.
 
wklie said:
The latest announcement in post #1 says 60,000 albums.
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Even better!

Guess I was wrong about music labels not wanting to sell hires files at 96/24.
I wonder how they managed to have the largest hires catalog in the world!
 
I just began testing it. Unfortunately, a number of hi-res albums result in error "The Record Label does not permit streaming of this album". So, what you see is not necessarily what you can stream... :(
 
audio.bill said:
I would guess that error may be dependent upon your location and due to differences in regional licensing agreements.
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Yes, you're right. There are also a number of albums that are not for streaming - the official Qobuz apps or its web player will offer a choice to purchase them.
 
j2020 said:
With the major music labels signing up with MQA, will DSD survive? Even Sony has sort of given up on it.
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How so has Sony given up on DSD? I see more and more DSD releases every week on High Definition Tape Transfers. Even Acoustic Sounds, HDTracks and Primephonic are all selling DSD downloads. I've got quite a few excellent DSD albums from all 4 of these companies. If you're speaking of disc DSDs I can see those decreasing but from my experience DSD download options are only increasing and getting better sounding as well as offering more catalogue options.

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alvester said:
.........If you're speaking of disc DSDs I can see those decreasing but from my experience DSD download options are only increasing and getting better sounding as well as offering more catalogue options.

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We are in agreement on both points. :)
 
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