Recent content by BigH

Why do WHF keep awarding Tidal? Qobuz is better sound quality and much cheaper, less than £11 pm for HR. They also don't keep pushing RAP and R&B, at me. MQA has gone, that is the good news.

Depends what device you use. On BluOs Amazon is very poor, all the others I have tried are far better, Deezer, Qobuz, Tidal and Spotify. The problem seems to lie with Amazon who don't seem interested.

OK, can you borrow a MQA DAC from a dealer to try? Or the new Node?

To be honest, I would not bother with MQA. I have a Node2 and Soncoz DAC which handles MQA, I struggled to hear any difference. Tidal MQA level is £20 pm.

No because it will cost them money. They were going to do it in 2021 but I think the reason they did not eas because Amazon reduced their prices considerably on the cd/HR level. If Spotify can sell low res at $10/ £10 and increase the number of subscribers then do they need to cd quality? If...

Does not work like that, people pick the service they want, probably 99% are not bothered about cd quality, even some on Hifi forums use Spotify.

Is Wiim gapless? That would be a big issue for me.

Why when they are selling lower quality for that price. Many people are not bothered about sound quality. If they had to cut existing subscription prices then they will lose money. Most of the competition has all cut their prices in the last 2 years, Tidal can bet for £10, Deezer, can bet for...

Does it, does not make much difference on my streamer, apart from Amazon which is rubbish. Qobuz is best for sound quality, best for jazz and classical. I did not find much difference between Spotify, Tidal and Deezer catalogue wise. So depends how you are streaming it. I did have some issues...

I doubt it is. Amazon etc have uncut them. Spotify will either have to charge more for hifi or cut their other subscriptions. Spotify said it would be out in 2021.

Deezer is cheaper than Spotify, Im paying £5.99 pm, Spotify is £10 pm and only low res, Deezer is cd quality. Tidal is £10pm. Qobuz is less than £11 pm, on annual contract. I could not get on with Spotify sound quality. I don't understand your comment.

No you don't need a DCC, at all. The DAC I would be looking at is Denafrips Aries, only 2 uk dealers, cost about £700, several youtube reviews rate this highly. Jolida/Black Ice, but no uk dealers and very hard to find used. Numerous Chinese DACs but not sure they will give what you want. Chord...

The. Node is quite good, some people have used it quite high end systems with ATC 40 actives, although they did use a LPSU and external DAC. The speakers make the biggest difference to the sound, but maybe your amp. Is not a good match? I know someone with those speakers on another forum but...

Dropouts could be to do with your router, see other thread about Qobuz, many have sorted by changing the router, if you have a BT or Virgin one, and changing the DNS.

The Node's DAC is not great. The power supply also benefits from upgrading but I think the main issue here is the amp and speakers. Those speakers are revealing and need careful matching. You should try different speakers, maybe Kefs. You could try different amps as well.