MaxH wrote:

Tidal Connect is a way to avoid sending data streams to your phone (or whatever) first and then on to the device actually playing it. This opens the door to higher-quality streaming direct streaming.

There is quite a lot of confusion about this but at the moment you cannot stream this service direct to the Harmony or B&O speakers.

If you enter the Tidal app and push 'supported devices' it will show Airplay or Chromecast as well as Harmony etc., but this is not Tidal Connect although you need to dig a little deeper to discover this.

Correct, which do not currently include Beovisions or the Core. Sadly. 

We discuss this frequently. B&O, PLEASE GIVE US NATIVE SUPPORT FOR TIDAL! 

MaxH wrote:

Tidal Connect is a way to avoid sending data streams to your phone (or whatever) first and then on to the device actually playing it. This opens the door to higher-quality streaming direct streaming.

There is quite a lot of confusion about this but at the moment you cannot stream this service direct to the Harmony or B&O speakers.

If you enter the Tidal app and push 'supported devices' it will show Airplay or Chromecast as well as Harmony etc., but this is not Tidal Connect although you need to dig a little deeper to discover this.

Qobuz tries it also on its own app (in beta).  The app sees all the B&o devices, but mostly won't accept it to stream, whereas the Audirvana app works in general fine.

Carolpa wrote:

Another option is using Audirvana.

Audirvana supports Tidal. One can UPnP/DLNA stream to the Harmony (up to 24bit 192kHz).

Setup:

1. Mac/PC running Audirvana (same PC/Mac can also be used as Server or as Mac/PC 😁)

2. subscription to Qobuz or Tidal

3. iPhone/iPad/Android phone running the Audirvana app to control Audirvana running on the Mac/PC

On the left:  PC dedicated as media server. It is running two instances of Minimserver and Audirvana. Qobuz is integrated in Audirvana (as Tidal; but I opted for Qobuz). Audirvana is only used for UPnP/DLNA streaming of Qobuz. It can also index ones own music collection  .

On the right: Mac Mini (M1) running Beoliving app and Audirvana app. Note: both are iPhone/iPad apps. Using the Audirvana phone app one can controll Qobuz (Tidal) and stream to a B&o device, in my case the A6. With the Beoliving app or the B&o app one can multiroom this stream (for example the BS35 as can be seen). So with only my iPhone/iPad I can stream Qobuz (Tidal) to all my B&o devices.

One can change the Active Audio Device in the Audirvana app, but I let it always stream to the A6 and JOIN the other devices

Good work but it seems a tad simpler to get B&O to support it :-)

MaxH wrote:

Good work but it seems a tad simpler to get B&O to support it :-)

But the point is, B&o seems to supports UPnP/DLNA streaming. It acceps Spotify Connect, Kodi, Audirvana, Qobuz (with problems and hick-ups, but it is still in beta), Foobar, but from info in this post, Tidal not. So I would point to Tidal (but I did never had experiences with their streaming, so maybe it is more complicated, than this simple conclusion) 

And yes, if Qobuz would improve their UPnP/DLNA streaming (now beta), then I would presumably not need Audirvana anymore. Thus a tad simpler, but only a tad.

Gary18 wrote:

Hi

I’m trying the audirvana on 30 day free trial and really enjoying it. The sound quality from tidal hifi streamed through airplay and audirvana is night and day.

Thank you for your suggestion

Gary

Same experience over here with Qobuz