[drbluenewmexico]

Guys im new to this forum. Is there a big difference on using my phone + uapp + dac + tidal against just using phone + dac + tidal? Anyone pls, is there a significant boost in sound quality to purchase the uapp application?

Yes for sure

 

[MikeyFresh]

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[N0sferatu]

Would UAPP have any usage if you are just bluetooth streaming from your phone? Something tells me probably not. I pay for Tidal Master for home usage and mostly just use HiFi when on the go figuring the limitations of Bluetooth.

 

[yawg]

Hiby Player also uses the external DAC.

 

[Jet Black]

Hiby Player also uses the external DAC.

Can i use hiby music app like uapp on my tidal subscription? Will that work?

 

[Jet Black]

Yes. UAPP is the best $ I have EVER spent on an app. If you are paying the cost of Tidal lossless, then you care about audio quality... why would you not pay $5 to have access to UAPP for the rest of your life?

Without UAPP, youre generally going to be using your phone's DAC and only the amp part of your external device. In the best case, you will output an upsampled digital stream to your external DAC.

Interesting note though... I read in Tidals FAQ a while back (I think thats where it was) that Tidal MQA requires bitperfect playback... but that doesnt make sense to me, since Tidal does not utilize bit perfect on my device, yet I still am notified via my MQA enabled device that it is playing MQA content?? Interesting, and confusing... oh yeah, it's audio stuff... it's all confusing

I wonder is there a free app that is kinda like uapp that will be a third party app player to play my tidal streaming music? I search that hiby music can bypass the android music system and utilizes your external dac dongle like uapp. Can hiby music app do it as well? If not is it only uapp that can do it and i have no choice then..

 

[Devodonaldson]

I wonder is there a free app that is kinda like uapp that will be a third party app player to play my tidal streaming music? I search that hiby music can bypass the android music system and utilizes your external dac dongle like uapp. Can hiby music app do it as well? If not is it only uapp that can do it and i have no choice then..

Hiby app not accessing streaming services. UAPP has access to streaming services in the UAPP app itself. You sign into your account through the UAPP app and play through there. Only app with this possibility for now

 

[Jet Black]

Hiby app not accessing streaming services. UAPP has access to streaming services in the UAPP app itself. You sign into your account through the UAPP app and play through there. Only app with this possibility for now

I'm new to this, but im just curious... How good of improvement a software like uapp can do on sound quality. Is it like a night and day difference or its better like it just made it louder?

 

[ProtegeManiac]

I'm new to this, but im just curious... How good of improvement a software like uapp can do on sound quality. Is it like a night and day difference or its better like it just made it louder?

Cleaner, less noise, but never really louder.

Note though that as with all software this can have bugs. Neutron Music Player sounds clean now even with the DSP features on but back when I had the SGS3 initially it had annoying electronic noise on it. An update months later fixed it, but ya know...months. Although to be fair even if I cranked up my VSonics it was barely there, where it was a huge problem was with my Aurisonics ASG-1.3 due to the very high sensitivity.

 

[yawg]

Cleaner, less noise, but never really louder.

Note though that as with all software this can have bugs. Neutron Music Player sounds clean now even with the DSP features on but back when I had the SGS3 initially it had annoying electronic noise on it. An update months later fixed it, but ya know...months. Although to be fair even if I cranked up my VSonics it was barely there, where it was a huge problem was with my Aurisonics ASG-1.3 due to the very high sensitivity.

A good player should just send the digital signal. That's what Hiby does. But its user interface sucks IMHO.

 

[iFi audio]

A good player should just send the digital signal.

These days a DAP's ability to send digital data outside is a big plus, I think

 

[Jet Black]

This is a screen shot of my uapp playing a song 'take on me'. I'm just using a trial version as I am evaluating if there is really a need to purchase this because of sound quality, in the screenshot it is seen that I am on 48khz in usb dac, is this already the highest i can squeeze out of my dac? Im using an ibasso dc03 in this case. I know it is not an mqa certified device and my trial doesn't permit me to unlock the mqa potential but so far, is this the best I can get with an external dac? I don't see any change in music quality to be honest.

 

[MikeyFresh]

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[m-i-c-k-e-y]

is this already the highest i can squeeze out of my dac?

Your DAC is 32bit 384kHz PCM and DSD256 capable. Why not try out some appropriate test files from these: http://www.2l.no/hires/index.html (3rd and 10th column)

With the MQA plugin (w/ non MQA rederer device) you can get the first unfold. So you could go max at 24bit 88.2/96 kHz.

As Mikey has pointed out. MQA is lossy. Why go that route and pay addtional fees. While you can go lossless and no additional fee.

 

[Jet Black]

Your DAC is 32bit 384kHz PCM and DSD256 capable. Why not try out some appropriate test files from these: http://www.2l.no/hires/index.html (3rd and 10th column)

With the MQA plugin (w/ non MQA rederer device) you can get the first unfold. So you could go max at 24bit 88.2/96 kHz.

As Mikey has pointed out. MQA is lossy. Why go that route and pay addtional fees. While you can go lossless and no additional fee.

So pls tell me how to go lossless and no additional fee. You mean instead of using tidal mqa records, i download my own hi res music and still using uapp as my main player in an android phone with external USB dac/amp dongle? I just want to utilize my ibasso dc03's potential. Thank you showing me a link to test hi res files for free.