Reports are though that it sounds pretty good.Īnd lastly we could get into the argument about whether MQA really offers any improvement over PCM and whether it is a rort or from being 'cheap' the INEXPENSIVE ME2 is an excellent DAC it sounds better at times than my non MQA 800$ pre multibit Schiit Gungnir plus it totally 'unfolds' TIDAL 'MASTERS" MQA material. If you are using it in a second system streaming from your computer then the internal DAC will (apparently) provide full unfolding. If you connect your Mcintosh DAC to it you won't get the full unfold. You would need to step up to something like the Mytek Brooklyn DAC to get the full unfold and compete with the McIntosh.Īs for the Bluesound, it is primarily a streaming option. Personally I would think the McIntosh DAC playing a partially unfolded file should sound better than the cheap Explorer2 fully unfolding the MQA file. To get the full MQA experience you need an MQA DAC, the cheapest of which ATM is the Meridian Explorer2. If you have your computer connected straight to your Mcintosh DAC you can get the first MQA unfold from the Tidal App or Audirvana. Hope I make sense here as this is my first post. I want to integrate Blusesound in order to remove Airplay from my system because it can't stream 24 bit while bluesound could. Second part of this: The Audirvana Plus has MQA capability, does this solve my issues and would I get the full MQA experience? Would I, at the end of the day ended up with worse quality music than feeding it with the USB cable and using my McIntosh DAC while not having the full MQA experience. My issue with this set-up is that the Burr Brown Chip on this 599$ (CDN) is not at the level of the DAC built in my McIntosh. So I was told Buesound Node 2 would happen to do just that. My understanding is that Tidal by itself connected through my McIntosh will not deliver the full MQA experience and need an MQA compatible DAC. My computer is connected to my McIntosh MHA100 through USB and I am using eihter Amarra Symphony or Audirvana Plus (with Tidal) + Itunes. Ignore the naysayers.I subscribe to Tidal Hifi and have access to Masters encoded with MQA. They have an awesome development team, and really care about their product. Some are having glitches but Roon will sort those out quickly. They have just updated Roon to v1.8 and for me it's been flawless since day 1. You can do a 30-day trial, and run the core from a computer on your network to get started, and use the desktop app to control. You can have multiple zones in other rooms and stream to those using your server. Your core holds your ripped music and the Roon Core OS, and that streams to your endpoint/streamer. Wyred4Sound makes a nice one, as does Innuos. You can run the Roon CORE on a PC/Mac, a Roon Nucleus server, or a 3rd party server-streamer like mine. I use an Amazon Kindle 10" tablet as my "remote". $10 a month for Roon, and it’s indispensable, imo. I just started ripping all my CDs to the server. You can arrange playlists, sort many different ways, and organize your library. Click, click, click and you’ve taken a deep dive into discovering more new music than you imagined possible. Imagine Tidal paired with Wikipedia, where all the artists, albums, tracks, notes, lyrics are hyperlinked and/or displayable. It takes streaming to a level I hadn’t imagined. ) several months ago, and I can’t imagine giving up Roon-ever. ROON! I’ve been streaming Tidal for about a year, and love it.
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