Tidal hifi while using AirPods Pro

[HALE101]

Just picked up my Airpods pro from best buy and tried Apple Music Spotify and tidal hifi, I know that the pros can’t be implemented while playing a hifi or master track, but it may just be in my head but songs on tidal hifi sound way more crisper compared to the alternatives .

has anyone tried tidal hifi and found the sound quality too be a bi better or am I just crazy? Lol

 

[BrianBaughn]

The way I understand it, Tidal's "HiFi" is actually some sort of FLAC, lossless format which should be equivalent to listening to a CD. Apple and Spotify are streaming, in their best quality cases, compressed and "lossy" formats. Keep in mind that streaming a lossless FLAC involves more data than a lossy, compressed format.

In addition to the file type and compression, each service has their own system for creating the files that we're streaming. In Tidal's case, I would think their hifi streams are just converted to FLAC and no other processing occurs.

Apple and Spotify probably sound different side by side, also, at comparable quality settings.

I'm on a 4 month Master/HiFi trial of Tidal and can tell quite a bit of difference between the services when on my Mac and listening via my nearfield monitors or nice headphone.

With the Airpods, you have to consider the added sound degradation used in their transmission technology.

 

[Minarets]

I pay for both Tidal and Apple Music. I feel I can hear a difference in Tidal Hifi. Wish they had all masters for all artists.

 

[Bmoreguy03]

Im going to try to today and come back with a report

 

[Ralfi]

I couldn’t tell enough of a difference over Bluetooth whilst on a Tidal MDQ trial to warrant the asking price.

The wireless transmission standard (at least on iPhone) isn’t there yet.

 

[seggy]

BT transmission resamples everything to 16/48Khz anyway...

...including 16/44.1khz data.