![]() ![]() Sounded largely the same, except it seemed a bit louder on Tidal. ![]() Pieces of Act 2 of Gotterdammerung, the Georg Solti, Wiener Philharmoniker recording: honestly this is probably too complex to easily identify subtle differences. I started with what I was listening to at the moment, a Ring Cycle I am going through while following along the script in a bilingual edition (fun), and then switched to songs I know well. This is presented only as listening impressions, what I heard, without delving into potential digital signal correlates – which would be very interesting to do, and if anyone reading can connect some dots (or bits) there, great. Where available, I listened to the Ultra HD version on Amazon and MQA on Tidal, I specify where that was not the case. As this gets loud, the volume was somewhere below 9 o’clock, just above where it would start getting imbalanced – gives plenty of detail without hurting my ears). The Zen Dac had both the “Power Match” and the “Truebass” buttons on. The headphones are new and not fully broken in yet. System: both apps out of an iPhone 11pro, with the camera adapter to send signal to USB, into a iFi Zen Dac powered with its dedicated power adapter, listening with Hifiman Sundara with stock cable. This is done not blinded, simply switching back and forth on the same song between the two applications, but I had pretty good equipoise starting out. Here is my brief head-to-head set of impressions, with some questions about others’ impressions and thoughts. I have just started my trial with Amazon HD after about a year of using Tidal.
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