I am likely to get Audirvana instead and trying their demo at the moment: much more money, but then it works and sounds much better than just playing through iTunes so I guess you get what you pay for (and actually you get DSD playback and three months’ tidal membership thrown in). I sought refund from the developer as it is demonstably unfit for its stated purpose but they have not responded so I will now contact Apple directly. At the moment, TIDAL is the only service that offers lossless streams in CD quality (Flac format) for all devices. This is fine for the average user, but the compression will be audible for owners of high-end speakers or headphones. Furthermore, 90% of the gapless playback does not work (compared to allways working when merely using iTunes). SOUND QUALITY - TIDAL VS SPOTIFY Premium members can listen to music via Spotify with a maximum bitrate of 320kbps. The sound quality was not demonstrably superior to simply playing back in iTunes and selecting the appropriate output sample rate in AudioMidiSettings. Weird stuttering of the audio would develop with some configurations but changing settings arbitrarily might or might not fix on any give occasion. Depending on your subscription type you will be able to select from two to four of the following options. In Settings, scroll down to select Streaming to manage your sound quality.
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I was occasionally able to get this working for an hour or two at a time but generally using a Mac Pro 2013 with Chord Mojo DAC found it extremely glitchy and unreliable. To make changes to the sound quality on your TIDAL mobile app, go to My Collection, and then click on to access Settings. Super unreliable & glitchy: unuseable & frustrating music playback experience Bit-perfect music listening can happen away from your HiFi system with the NODE as your. Support for AirPlay (requires OS X 10.8 and above). Hi-Res streaming MQA streaming soundbar Spotify Tidal Connect.
Integer Mode playback - on supported DACs and supported versions of OS X (requires OS X 10.9 and above). Plays native DSD files in "Hybrid-DSD" format with DSD-compatible DACs įull memory playback with triple-buffering to ensure continuous playback of large files.Ĭhoice of sample rate converters for up- and down-sampling.ĭithered bit depth reduction and volume control. no network configuration, with bit-perfect delivery of audio to your dac. Localization included in Japanese, French, Dutch, Danish, and Russian only TIDAL Connect is a technology built into the LUMIN Firmware that allows the. BitPerfect is a simple, easy to use, audiophile grade music player that works in conjunction with iTunes to deliver the highest possible sound quality.