I am in a bit of a quandary. Our only home broadband option is a DSL 3M speed and I want to use Roon + Tidal. If there is no internet activiting I can stream lossless from the Tidal app (or volumio via shd). However, when I signed up for the Roon trial (which I really like), even with no other internet activity, Roon/Tidal won't work well enough.
My only real option would be to downgrade Tidal to premium which streams at 320k AAC if I wanted to stream with Roon.
From reading here, I have seen comments that 256K and up it may be difficult to tell the difference betweek 256K aac and lossless. Has anyone done any DBT using 320k aac / Lossless and could you tell the difference? I would like to do a double blind test of 320k aac and lossless. Can anyone point me to a test anywhere testing these? Or how to set it up on my own pc? My thought is if I can't tell the difference I would just downgrade to the Tidal Premium 320k so I can use Roon.
What I found while using Roon, is it was helpful in discovering new music, so if there isn't an audible difference between 320k aac and lossless, that is the direction I will go.
Appreciate any insights.
My only real option would be to downgrade Tidal to premium which streams at 320k AAC if I wanted to stream with Roon.
From reading here, I have seen comments that 256K and up it may be difficult to tell the difference betweek 256K aac and lossless. Has anyone done any DBT using 320k aac / Lossless and could you tell the difference? I would like to do a double blind test of 320k aac and lossless. Can anyone point me to a test anywhere testing these? Or how to set it up on my own pc? My thought is if I can't tell the difference I would just downgrade to the Tidal Premium 320k so I can use Roon.
What I found while using Roon, is it was helpful in discovering new music, so if there isn't an audible difference between 320k aac and lossless, that is the direction I will go.
Appreciate any insights.