Oh you're quite welcome, today is a beautiful day,is your day as beautiful as mine.Thanks for you concern and kind words.
Oh you're quite welcome, today is a beautiful day,is your day as beautiful as mine.Thanks for you concern and kind words.
Just speaking of me, i have Tidal/Qobuz & Amazon HD.Most of them don't have a Tidal account, don't listen to MQA track's,most of them are just ranting about something they don't even use and it's stupid.
So do I and I listen to them allJust speaking of me, i have Tidal/Qobuz & Amazon HD.
So, all is good.
On part of Tidal catalog, you can, and on an increasing part, you can't choose 16bit FLAC : check Humanz from Gorillaz, the FLAC version is not there anymore. The "Master" is unchanged, but the Hifi will give you 16bit MQA only, no 16bit FLAC anymoreI can pick the albums (version's) I chose to play,I don't understand why other can't.
My wife likes the Android-App from Tidal.....So do I and I listen to them all
You serious? I said MQA was free in Tidal. Not that Tidal was free.
But yes, you actually need to sign up for these services to understand the market. Then we would not argue over such simple facts.
Well that's just lovely... now, back to the proprietary format that is MQA which contains the ability to switch on DRM;So do I and I listen to them all
Then I am puzzled as to why Keith wrote "Although the input signal was only one sample wide, in the recorded version the impulse energy has been smeared over many samples due to the ringing behavior of the anti-alias filter."
A properly sampled impulse (i.e. anti-alias filtered) will NOT be 1 sample wide . . .
What Keith showed was the D/A reconstruction of a synthesized signal that did not represent real life (i.e. sampled in accordance with the requirements of the sampling theorem).
Tidal is the same price as it always been,it didn't go up or down.
I would have thought a sine sweep would be a better tool to characterise an ADC than a haphazardly cobbled-together pulse-like waveform.Characterizing the behavior of the antialiasing filters used by A/D converters is a different matter. To do that, as I explained in an earlier posting, to do that I created a shaped analog impulse with spectral content up to 60kHz.
But as you also said and I agreed, when sent to a D/A converter, it "maps" the coefficients of the reconstruction filter.
Who wants to try an analogy? Suppose there's a pizza place you like. For $10, they'll serve you a tasty pizza. One day, you notice there's a lot more crust and correspondingly less topping than usual. The owner explains that this is the new Master Quality Pizza and it's really much better like this. The price is still $10. You can just skip eating the hard crust and enjoy the rest for the same price as before, so the extra crust is merely a free improvement for those who want it and no detriment to you, right? Or maybe getting less edible pizza for the same money isn't quite what you call free. Oh, and the pizza is all folded up too.
The impulse response always fully characterises a linear system. If it is finite, it is simply the filter coefficients (exactly, not an approximation). Although infinite impulse responses may have other finite representations, the test is no less valid.Not necessarily true. Depends on filter structure. See, e.g., IIR (infinite impulse response) filters. For a FIR filter, which are typically used at least in the digital parts of audio reconstruction filters, it's a reasonable approximation.
The impulse response always fully characterises a linear system. If it is finite, it is simply the filter coefficients (exactly, not an approximation). Although infinite impulse responses may have other finite representations, the test is no less valid.
You have a contract with a mobile phone provider for a very specific service. Your agreement with Tidal is not quite the same. They don’t guarantee access to particular music or particular formats. In fact your agreement with Tidal is more like “here’s our catalogue, anything may change without prior warning, you pay for access, take it or leave it”. Tidal could overnight change to low-bitrate OGG and high-bitrate OGG for their respective tiers and that’d be fine in respect to their terms of service. Half their tracks could disappear without warning and, again, they wouldn’t break their own terms of service, which you agree to, when you subscribe and continue to subscribe.The funny thing is that I just received an email from my mobile provider saying that they want to replace one of my mobile plans for one with more data but also a higher price : I have no choice to keep my plan, but I'm inform of that, and can accept the new plan and price, or stop my plan immediatly at no cost even if I still have engagement. They want to change something on my offer, they announce it. This is not what Tidal is doing, and in the lower level, what Qobuz does with a few MQA tracks showing as 24/44.1 FLAC.
You have a contract with a mobile phone provider for a very specific service. Your agreement with Tidal is not quite the same. They don’t guarantee access to particular music or particular formats. In fact your agreement with Tidal is more like “here’s our catalogue, anything may change without prior warning, you pay for access, take it or leave it”. Tidal could overnight change to low-bitrate OGG and high-bitrate OGG for their respective tiers and that’d be fine in respect to their terms of service. Half their tracks could disappear without warning and, again, they wouldn’t break their own terms of service, which you agree to, when you subscribe and continue to subscribe.
It’s more akin to paying for a newspaper subscription. They might reduce the number of pages. Or the font size. They might start publishing a lot of outrageous lies instead of well-researched, fact-based stories, but there’s just nothing you can do about it except for voting with your wallet.
This debate is more religious in nature than anything else. MQA is a proprietary file format used almost exclusively by Tidal, for streaming. If you don’t like it, don’t subscribe. That’s what I did.
This is absolutely not true. When I signed up for Tidal Hi-Fi, this is what I saw under "What is Tidal Hi-FI" (link):
HiFi for $19.99 / month
TIDAL's HiFi tier gives subscribers all the same great content and experiences as a Premium subscription, with the added benefit of music in lossless, CD and Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) quality (1411 kbps vs. 320 kbps for standard streaming).
HiFi streaming delivers an uncompressed sound file, which means that you can hear every instrument and every note – as the artist intended. This tier costs $19.99 per month.
This is still up on their page.
Religious? No. An opinionated discussion of facts and values: YesThis debate is more religious in nature than anything else.