gidders
hifi enthusiast, golfer & photographer
OK as always that's not the whole story, but hear me out
For the past couple of weeks I've been exploring streaming services with trial subscriptions to Spotify, premium, Tidal Hifi, Qobuz & Deezer.
I love the Spotify interface, breadth of the catalogue & its artist & track radio functions to find new music, and while their 320kpbs stream sounds OK, its not as good as hifi -16 / 44.1 streams the others offer.
I'm also loving the fact that Tidal offer some material in 24bit whereas you have to subscribe to Qobuz sublime+ to get that, & Deezer don't offer anything over CD res. OH... BUT YOU CAN'T DECODE 24 bit MQA FILES ON A DS :'(
Which brings me back to my original assertion - £100 DAC beats Klimax Renew DS
Firing up Tidal Desktop app on my laptop, which will decode MQA files, & outputting through my £100 dac at 24/96, this sounds better than the same file played at 16/44.1 through Kazoo to my KRDS
The other benefit of using the desktop app/dac set up is the ability to access Tidal's artist & track radio functions to find new music.
OK comparing like for like a 16/44.1 sounds better through the KRDS than the £100 DAC - phew!
I wish Linn would implement MQA decoding, & artist & track radio via Kazoo
For the past couple of weeks I've been exploring streaming services with trial subscriptions to Spotify, premium, Tidal Hifi, Qobuz & Deezer.
I love the Spotify interface, breadth of the catalogue & its artist & track radio functions to find new music, and while their 320kpbs stream sounds OK, its not as good as hifi -16 / 44.1 streams the others offer.
I'm also loving the fact that Tidal offer some material in 24bit whereas you have to subscribe to Qobuz sublime+ to get that, & Deezer don't offer anything over CD res. OH... BUT YOU CAN'T DECODE 24 bit MQA FILES ON A DS :'(
Which brings me back to my original assertion - £100 DAC beats Klimax Renew DS
Firing up Tidal Desktop app on my laptop, which will decode MQA files, & outputting through my £100 dac at 24/96, this sounds better than the same file played at 16/44.1 through Kazoo to my KRDS
OK comparing like for like a 16/44.1 sounds better through the KRDS than the £100 DAC - phew!
I wish Linn would implement MQA decoding, & artist & track radio via Kazoo