Recent content by Barheys

Hello Greg, So yes, I did indeed use the Music Life app for about a year. My experience was that when I was listening to FLAC files through the CDS50 , they sounded much better than say using Airplay to stream through the Tidal app. However the user experience on the Tidal app was much better...

Hello gfong -I am reasonably certain that the CDS50 can do the first unfold of MQA files - The Musiclife app itself doesnt need to be compatible with MQA as it doesnt do anything - it just controls the CDS50 which is where the action happens. I am not confident however that the CDS50 can do the...

Hello Gfong - so yes I agree that you can make Music life work. I found it did crash often - I tried it for a bit (around a year) but got progressively hacked off with its limitations and poor user experience. As you say, I have to go into the Tidal app, fix whatever I want to there and then...

Hello Goodears - The issue isnt so much as to whether these various methods of obtaining connectivity work because as you indeed point out, they do. The issue is around whether you are then able to benefit from the full MQA unfold of the signals received into your kit. Just about any method...

Hi - so in my case, I have connected the Node 2i directly to my amp - the Node can output in either pure digital through a coax output or in analogue, having converted the digital signal using its own built in DAC. So I am doing the latter. You could absolutely connect the Node to the CDS50...

Hello Hawkmoon - it was the Bluetooth in your answer that foxed me as I am not using Bluetooth - however, I do now have the answer and agree that you are correct on this. So even when you select the Node from within the Tidal app on (in my case) an iPhone, it actually uses Airplay to stream the...

Oh really ? I hadn't twigged that ..... I had just assumed that with both my phone and node being on the same wifi network, it was all coming off the network via wifi. Is it because I am essentially using bluetooth to stream first from my phone to the Node as opposed to the Node directly...

Hi everyone - as the original poster in this thread, I thought I ought to update on progress as I have come upon a solution that I am more than happy with. So following advice from Hawkmoon (thank you !) I checked out the Bluesound Node2i and finally bought one today. I can confirm that it does...

Sorry I didn’t mean to suggest otherwise - CD quality is indeed very good and way better than MP3 - true lossless is just that little bit better but I agree we are very much at the margins here and CD quality is good enough for 99.9% of us 😀. I am using AirPlay 2 most of the time for now and it...

ok - thanks for that. So I think you are saying I ought to be able to get CD quality at least ? It doesn’t sound as good, but maybe that’s just me ........

Hi - thanks for having a go and appreciate the effort. If something does occur to you down the line, please feel free to revert back with any suggestions - happy to give them a go. Thanks once again :-)

Thank you for getting back to me. I did have a look at this but wasn't sure so will happily take advice and input. From what I can see, it will do the converting from digital to analogue itself and output analogue only (there aren't any digital outputs on the back). Whilst that may not...

Thank you for that - if I was streaming via Bluetooth then indeed I am sure you would be right. As it stands, I am streaming via Airplay because that is the only way other than using Music Life (which I'm not keen on) I can get my music to the Arcam stuff. I gather Airplay is limited by Apple's...

I've recently invested in some Arcam kit (SA20 Amp and CDS50 CD player with streaming capabilities) and have wanted to stream Tidal (HiFi/FLAC) to it. Although Arcam have their own Music Life App which lets you do this natively from within the app, the experience is poor (app is a bit flaky...