psikey
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Just listened to the same song in MQA version on Tidal and in 24-bit/96 kHz bought on Qobuz through the Walkman app. Night and day. Just saying ...
I assume your playing the bought track in the Walkman player? That's where the difference is. The Walkman app is doing bitperfect via its own driver direct to hardware (bit like UAPP on compatible phones) while the Tidal App is having the 16/44 or 32/192 scaling via Android and both introduce a slight veil for what I'm hearing.
I have a 24/192 FLAC, the same 24/192 but as an MQA and then the MQA Tidal stream. The first two sound identical in the Walkman app while the Tidal stream/offline version of it going through Tidal app has the slight veil.
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