I have found the passthrough plus Explorer² is considerably better than Tidal MQA plus my much more expensive Moon 750D DAC. I posted on this earlier.

But the reason for posting is the CPU usage from Tidal seems ridiculously high in passthrough. I have a much quieter MacBook Pro when using Pure Music for playing MQA downloads. Tidal streaming experience quite off-putting at present as a result. Depends of course on where your computer is sited....

Did you get any indication on the nature of the Tidal problems, Joel??!!!

Bruce

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