24-Feb-2015, 22:41
(24-Feb-2015, 22:31)PhilP Wrote:(24-Feb-2015, 18:36)GuillaumeB Wrote: Yes I have finally managed to get Tidal working on my totaldac....
Sound quality-wise I'm not too impressed and I don't know if this is simply because MPD only is just so much better or if there is something I haven't optimised correctly in the Logitech Media Server audio settings... at the moment the sound is a bit muffled and lacking in dynamics like an MP3 perhaps.
Anyway perhaps if I can improve on the SQ I will get a bit more enthusiastic!
Guillaume
Sounds like a s/w problem...
Tidal sounded very good when I tried it on my Mac. In fact I would say that it was often difficult to distinguish between streaming from Tidal and listening to a CD rip of the same album. I didn't go with Tidal as I experienced some stuttering and I preferred to stay with the excellent Qobuz - French, of course
When listening critically I can hear differences between Tidal/Qobuz and a CD rip and prefer the latter so I still occasionally buy CDs of music I really like but would guess I listen to Qobuz 80-90% of the time now...
Be aware that not all albums on Tidal are 16-bit lossles. They told me that 20-30% are lossy.
Well I'm going to try another couple of options:
1) Streaming Tidal from my iPad to the totaldac via Airplay
2) Borrowing a Linn Akurate DS which I know has a half decent digital out and connecting that to the Dev, that way I can stream using Kazoo which is very slick
I played a number of tracks from different albums and the sound just wasn't good. I don't think there is much else I can do to optimise Ipeng and the LMS on the cubox... I wonder if ickstream isn't the bottleneck here - ickstream provides the Tidal service to the Ipeng app...
I'm not giving up just yet!
Guillaume
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