JEDIBLADE
Prominent Member
Hi,
I normally use spotify and have always wanted to try tidal especially with MQA. I finally got my act together and have started the free trial. I'm pretty sure I've got tidal set up properly as the tracks I'm playing have the little 'M' symbol next to them. I'm playing the tracks from the tidal desktop app on my nuc, the nuc is connected to my Arcam 850 amp with an hdmi, the amp knows it's getting a higher bit rate as it displays incoming sample rate as 192kHz as opposed to 96kHz when playing spotify.
So all appears to be well , the thing is when I play tracks from tidal, then play the same track from spotify I can't hear any difference. Now if that's just down to me and my ears fair enough, I'll save myself £10 a month. I'm just wondering if I'm missing something obvious and there's a weak link in the chain I'm not aware of. I'm a bit of a noob with streaming etc so please keep any replies in layman's terms.
Cheers
I normally use spotify and have always wanted to try tidal especially with MQA. I finally got my act together and have started the free trial. I'm pretty sure I've got tidal set up properly as the tracks I'm playing have the little 'M' symbol next to them. I'm playing the tracks from the tidal desktop app on my nuc, the nuc is connected to my Arcam 850 amp with an hdmi, the amp knows it's getting a higher bit rate as it displays incoming sample rate as 192kHz as opposed to 96kHz when playing spotify.
So all appears to be well , the thing is when I play tracks from tidal, then play the same track from spotify I can't hear any difference. Now if that's just down to me and my ears fair enough, I'll save myself £10 a month. I'm just wondering if I'm missing something obvious and there's a weak link in the chain I'm not aware of. I'm a bit of a noob with streaming etc so please keep any replies in layman's terms.
Cheers