Lower audio doesn’t mean a decrease in quality, though that’s how humans perceive it. Atmos audio tracks actually have a higher headroom and don’t suffer from dynamic compression (i.e. the loudness wars). When done right, they can sound fantastic. Not many were great when Atmos/Spatial/360 mixes launched, but I’ve come across more solid mixes than terrible ones in the last year or two.
Ugh, never mind. For some reason I was thinking Sony’s 360 reality audio was the same thing as Atmos/Spatial audio when it isn’t, at least from what I just read.
Yeah, well, I totally understand that people want rid.. but do I understand the partition of the recording codec correctly? Nothing is removed, only the quality will be better, right?
The quality will technically be better now because it’s all 100% lossless whereas MQA was lossy and removed information. Now all tracks will be lossless, including the hi res releases.
MQA tracks often had low pass filters installed and the codec itself was lossy. Tidal (or the provider of the source material) would often source their FLAC files from the high res MQA ones, which meant they weren’t truly lossless. No more, it’s all lossless/hi res lossless.
3000th time I have seen this. Thanks for reposting
Woah! Thanks for sharing fren! /s
Laziness. Ppl should at least take a glance through the previous week's posts before posting 'news'.. Literally only takes a minute or two.
I have never cared that much about MQA. But the 360 is a bummer because my phone is not Dolby Atmos capable :/
Very true
360 sucks, they sound lower on my phone and the quality is not that good. I decided to use FLAC or Dolby instead.
Lower audio doesn’t mean a decrease in quality, though that’s how humans perceive it. Atmos audio tracks actually have a higher headroom and don’t suffer from dynamic compression (i.e. the loudness wars). When done right, they can sound fantastic. Not many were great when Atmos/Spatial/360 mixes launched, but I’ve come across more solid mixes than terrible ones in the last year or two.
Dolby has lower audio too, but I think it's better quality than 360, but that's my perception.
Ugh, never mind. For some reason I was thinking Sony’s 360 reality audio was the same thing as Atmos/Spatial audio when it isn’t, at least from what I just read.
This sucks for those who went out of their way to get MQA-enabled devices and Sony headphones with 360 audio
MQA No more? What is actually wrong with MQA?
MQA is complete nonsense, overcomplicated lossy codec trying to pretend to better then simple lossless.
Yeah, well, I totally understand that people want rid.. but do I understand the partition of the recording codec correctly? Nothing is removed, only the quality will be better, right?
The quality will technically be better now because it’s all 100% lossless whereas MQA was lossy and removed information. Now all tracks will be lossless, including the hi res releases. MQA tracks often had low pass filters installed and the codec itself was lossy. Tidal (or the provider of the source material) would often source their FLAC files from the high res MQA ones, which meant they weren’t truly lossless. No more, it’s all lossless/hi res lossless.
I will never understand why MQA is hated. Can someone explain how this was made a whole hype to have it removed?
Cause MQA sounds like shit 🤷🏼♂️
But why?
It’s true try it asshole
Go deezer
Bless your heart.
LGBT Deezer with all of the multicolour UI shit. Yeah go Deezer. Go far away
what do the gays and such have to do with music streaming platforms
if anything gay people care about music quality more and use tidal 💀💀💀💀