- Apr 7, 2016
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Tidal hi-fi, Spotify premium to when I fart around with earphones. I also watch many videos on YouTube. These days alot of it is in a really good quality. I wait impatiently on Qobuzz as I also live in Denmark. 
There are good news. Tidal normal premium, is now lossless, and cost only $9.99 USD a month with standard sound quality (1411 Kbps).been using Spotify for some years... ...but they been offering 320kb/s only. After lossless/CD audio (*.flac/*.wav) came up and was available for streaming, i switched to Deezer.
In its simplest terms, hi-res audio tends to refer to music files that have a higher sampling frequency and/or bit depth than CD, which is specified at 16-bit/44.1kHz.
Sampling frequency (or sample rate) refers to the number of times samples of the signal are taken per second during the analogue-to-digital conversion process. The more bits there are, the more accurately the signal can be measured in the first instance, so going 16bit to 24bit can deliver a noticeable leap in quality. Hi-res audio files usually use a sampling frequency of 96kHz or 192kHz at 24bit. You can also have 88.2kHz and 176.4kHz files too.
Hi-res audio does come with a downside though: file size. A hi-res file can typically be tens of megabytes in size, and a few tracks can quickly eat up the storage on your device or be cumbersome to stream over your wi-fi or mobile network. Thankfully, storage is much cheaper than it used to be, so it's easier to get higher-capacity devices. And technologies such as MQA (see below) have arrived to help tackle that.
I admit I can't really hear the difference on so called MQA files, and lossless. So no need to throw pearls for swines.^^^yes, indeed these are good news
I grew up with music in CD quality (1411 kbps)... ...and i never really liked this IMO quite 'low' bitrate of 320 kbs that streaming sites have been offering for music in the past years. So i was very happy to see that now you can enjoy music in (true/old style/'classic') CD quality or above. There is also Hi-Res audio (higher sampling rate) but currently i dont have any compatible hardware for this quality.
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