Originally Posted by Matsaly
Thank you for the clarification. It confirmed my suspicion that I was listening to backwards compatible MQA encoded content.

Since I do not have an MQA decoder device I'll simply have to look at the Tidal master offerings as an opportunity to find out if I can hear any of the purported sonic benefits brought about solely by MQA encoding.

But if you use the Tidal decoder you will be able to hear unwrapped i.e. higher rez MQA.

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