Here’s a pertinent and recent discussion in this topic.

 

/forum/general-discussion-and-questions/a-day-with-a-bluesound-node-2i#post-2140337

 

My experience was that steaming TIDAL MQA to my BL18 vía a Bluesound Node 2i sounded the same to me as steaming TIDAL non-MQA.

To add my 1 cent... there's a song called 'The Asphalt World', by UK band Suede.

I listened to it on CD (BS3000 connected to BL20) countless times. Then I moved to the BS Core with Spotify. I couldn't listen to it anymore. The great part of the song just sounded ugly.

Lately, I moved to Deezer HiFi. And it sounds exactly like it did on the CD: I'm in love again.

Maybe this song was just terribly compressed by Spotify, but the difference with this song is night and day.

Parov Stellar’s music is all mastered in 320kbps. So what is the definition of high definition on his music?

Most of us could stop dikcing around with specs, and start actually listening to music again 😎

jc wrote:

To add my 1 cent... there's a song called 'The Asphalt World', by UK band Suede.

I listened to it on CD (BS3000 connected to BL20) countless times. Then I moved to the BS Core with Spotify. I couldn't listen to it anymore. The great part of the song just sounded ugly.

Lately, I moved to Deezer HiFi. And it sounds exactly like it did on the CD: I'm in love again.

Maybe this song was just terribly compressed by Spotify, but the difference with this song is night and day.

I have an exact opposite example, actually, where the Spotify version is way better than  the Qobuz 24/96: Oscar Peterson's We Get Requests. Oh well! 😎

 

jc wrote:

To add my 1 cent... there's a song called 'The Asphalt World', by UK band Suede.

jc wrote:

de.

 

I stumbled across your post in a search for a completely different topic, but decided to pull this song up in Deezer HiFi on my Moment.

 

Absolutely brilliant!  Thanks for letting me know about this!