3/25/2023 0 Comments Qobuz ripper![]() ![]() In the same light, us mortals don't know what kind of physical media record companies offer their streaming services. This is one reason why a rip and burn with Exact Audio Copy can sound better than the original. With CDs there's nothing and it's all too easy to buy a disc pressed by a worn stamper. With vinyl, a pressing number gives us some hints. What record companies do is hidden in the Avalonian mists. It's well possible that we heard altogether different versions. And it was here with the short high tones that we noticed edges which were absent in the CD rip and MQA file. The higher the tones, the shorter their reverb so there's less masking. Solo piano is unforgiving when anything is off. ![]() It seemed to us that the 16-bit and 24-bit streaming versions frayed around the edges. All other streaming takes from Qobuz and Tidal caused some form of listening fatigue and yes, we did play the same piece over and over with very focused attention. To our surprise, not far below it came Tidal's MQA version. With this recording and many serious listening sessions of just this one concert, again and again we found that the CD rip played from local storage was the most satisfying. This explained the displayed figures but not the perceived sound quality. This will contain the MQA rendering information necessary for your DAC to complete the unfolding process." So even though the DAC did not include MQA processing, Roon already presented it as a high-resolution stream. From the manual: "Roon will engage its MQA core decoder and unfold the file to a high-resolution 24-bit/88.2kHz or 24-bit/96kHz stream. True, neither Extreme nor TotalDAC 'do' MQA but we noticed that with MQA, the TotalDAC display showed the unfolded high frequency, in this case 96kHz.įrom Emile we learned that Roon's advanced option in Audio ⇒ Device Setup ⇒ Render unfolds the first step of MQA's origami. ![]() flac, bought from Qobuz in 24/96, streamed from Qobuz in 24/96 and streamed from Tidal in 24/48. We could play it from a number of sources: ripped from CD in 16-bit 44.1kHz. Because we could, we took to Keith Jarret's famous Köln Concert. The files we loaded to internal storage were either ripped from physical CD or downloaded from various commercial sources like Qobuz. ![]()
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