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Tidal ‘HiFi’ is NOT lossless

29th November 202129th November 2021 by Golden One

It seems that TIDAL’s new ‘HiFi’ tier does not actually offer true lossless music for many tracks. I do some testing to show this.

Categories Audio Science Tags mqa, platform, qobuz, service, streaming, tidal 67 Comments
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