Tidal Masters first unfold

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Hi, I’m using the latest version but can’t seem to achieve the first unfold for Tidal Masters - they are all playing at Hi-Fi quality. Any idea how to achieve that?

Thanks

2

Presuming your DAC supports it, make sure you play with Volumio volume set to 100%.
Otherwise you will not have bit-perfect output and the DAC will not be able to unfold.

3

Thanks! I do have the volume set to 100% but the Tidal Masters are still playing at Hi Fi quality when I thought there would be a first unfold (e.g., when I tried with my phones). I’m currently using Volumio on RPi 3 with a Chord Qutest DAC.

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i looked at your specs on the chord qutest dac but mqa seems not there …

5

Volumio does not unfold mqa, this would need a license which we do not have.
If your DAC is not capable of doing the unfolding than you just get HiFi.

6

Yes, Qutest is not an MQA renderer. But my understanding is that there would be the first unfold and sends 88.2kHz or 96kHz, higher than the Hi-Fi quality to the DAC. Using Tidal from my phone, I do get that but not from Volumio. Hence I’m wondering why.

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without mqa you don’t have a unfold and volumio doesn’t have mqa