John reviewed the Acoustic Research AR-M2 in March 2016, and it looks as if the LG V30 uses the same AR-M2 Music Player app. He also noted how it dug deep into recorded acoustics, and got the tonalities of instruments correct. JA felt he could "confidently recommend it," citing the ease and clarity of its sound. Although not equipped for MQA, the QP1R's Cirrus Logic CS4398 chip handled PCM up to 24/192 and DSD up to 128. The battery life is estimated at 10 hours charging is only by host computer, and can take up to eight hours.
The Questyle QP1R, which John reviewed in December 2015, has two 3.5mm jacks: one for headphones, and the other for analog and digital outputs the latter can be set for fixed- or variable-level output. While I had neither on hand for comparison, I noted that, during his auditions, John also used Audeze LCD-X headphones, and listened to tracks from David Abel and Julie Steinberg and Daft Punk.
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John Atkinson has reviewed two portable music players for Stereophile that are based on an Android phone chassis: Questyle Audio Technology's QP1R (now $1030 on Amazon), with 5" screen and 32GB of internal storage, expandable to 288GB and Acoustic Research's AR-M2 ($1119 on Amazon), with 5" screen and 64GB of internal storage, expandable to 192GB. But for a phone, for Chrissakes, that's amazing sound to come out of such a little piece! How much did you say it costs?" The soundstage certainly widened with the Rossini DAC, and there was more midrange information, and clearly more control and realistic decay of the bass. "I thought the separation of instruments was better with MQA, although the horns sounded a little thin. "With MQA, the dynamic range from the little phone was startling," he reported. I invited my audiophile physician, Gary Forbes, to take it a listen. What blew me away was the sound of the LG V30 through my reference system. Nonetheless, comparing Tidal and Qobuz's versions of Brandi Carlile's "Every Time I Hear that Song" and the Eagles' "Hotel California" (the studio version, from the 40th anniversary remastering of Hotel California, Qobuz's versions sounded significantly fuller, with greater body and resonance. As for which app sounds better with non-MQA tracks, I expect it's on a case-by-case basis. Qobuz plans to introduce hi-rez streaming, without MQA, in the US in the second quarter of 2018. Ditto for non-MQA streaming via the phone's Qobuz app. Files uploaded to the phone sounded even more vivid, especially in hi-rez. Without hi-rez and MQA, CD-quality files streamed via the V30's Tidal app sounded remarkably clear, open, and musical. As for how many MQA tracks HDtracks might stream, estimates were in the seven figures. Since the resolutions of the huge majority of hi-rez files do not exceed 24/96, this is far more of a gain than a limitation. One rumor was that, even for phones equipped for hi-rez but lacking MQA capability, the HDtracks app might unfold MQA tracks up to 24/96.
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(I was told that by publication time, Roon will likely be able to unfold MQA in systems with nonMQA-decoding DACs.) While the Tidal app for Android and iOS devices did not yet support MQA at press time, I was told that MQA streaming via the Tidal app would be available by the time this is printed.Īs I wrote this, HDtracks was reportedly preparing its own MQA streaming apps for Android and iOS that would be back-compatible with older versions of Windows and iOS operating systems, and should be available when this issue hits newsstands.
Up to now, to stream MQA, music lovers equipped for either computer audio or network streaming have accessed Tidal Masters, which they played using the Tidal computer app or Audirvana, Amarra, Roon, Foobar, or other software.
The last site offered the most MQA files, but neither it nor was licensed to sell to the US.
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MQA not only delivered more color saturation of Waters's voice, but Clifton James's drums had greater impact.Īs of mid-February, 4000 MQA albums were available for download from 2L,, ,, and the Japan-based /music. Switching gears, I checked out "My Home Is In the Delta," from Muddy Waters's Folk Singer (24/192 FLAC & 24/48 MQA.FLAC, Chess).
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