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Nothing very scientific, I let Amir handle that aspect. He’s much better equipped and knowledgeable. Just listening to a track, and then again in MQA and back and forth a few times and finally settling with MQA. Volume could vary a little in both cases. I might crank up the CD ripped version and see if it improves on what I felt I was missing comparing with the MQA version.Not at your end, no. Did you match levels? The effects you describe could be caused by a simple level difference, not to mention different eq (in the MQA process) or even different master...
Now, one other interesting thing I observed, but to be honest I didn’t spend too much time subjectively analyzing it, is that some Tidal Master tracks played through my Modius (non MQA) could sound worst than their Tidal non-master 16/44 version (when available - Roon makes it easy to find other versions of the same album). That could be related to different compression algorithms, not sure. Just something I subjectively observed.