Planning to do some back to back listening on the weekend, I'll post any thoughts on this afterwards. I will say I too really like Spotify so for now I've just taken one of Tidal's seemingly very frequent intro offers - for me it was "$4 for 3 months of their highest plan with access to MQA"...

I was absolutely confusing the two. Thanks for the patient explanation, it's very much appreciated. I'm now both relieved the device is working fine and much more educated with regard to bitrate & sample rate. Thanks so much from a very appreciative newbie!

Newbie here. I have just bought a hip dac, and it sounds great with Tidal and recognises MQA with the purple lights. I also have Spotify Premium account, how do I get it to indicate anything other than "green" when playing Spotify / get Spotify to feed it higher res? I would have thought...

Relatively speaking - nothing. Just bought the 400i and have no high-end source, so currently just listening to Tidal on a Macbook Pro, and considering the M11 as the first purchase... Thanks for the info, might have to try and hunt out an M11 to give it a listen with them first based on this...

Very new to the headphone game here. Just bought some Hifiman 400i’s which I’m quite happy with. Is there any reason to justify the M11 Pro over the M11 with the 400i’s? Or is it essentially overkill to spend 4 times what I spent on the headphones on a DAP, and will an M11 deliver me...

So i'm new to the whole headphone game. I have a suite of Apple products (iPhone Pro Max, iPad Pro & Macbook Pro), and (to start with) I'd like something to extract better sound from them for use with headphones. If I run something like Tidal on them that can output at a high resolution, I'm...