[vzidex]

Anecdotally, recently my dad got me a Tidal subscription (which has masters at supposedly higher quality than CDs) and an entry-level DAC. The two put together have blown me away and I've been having a blast the last couple of weeks re-listening to all my favourite records from as far back as the 70s.

I think the 70s are also around the same time that a lot of familiar genres started to emerge, while music from before then is often dismissed as "oldies" or saved for special occasions - e.g. old crunchy recordings of Christmas songs.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

> a Tidal subscription (which has masters at supposedly higher quality than CDs)

Alas, this is BS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHkqWZ9jzA0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-UGPXpqJ4

[vzidex]

It might very well be the DAC doing the work then, or maybe the placebo effect is just making me pay more attention to music I first heard years ago and I'm picking up more :)

Thanks for the information though, I'll do some A/B testing to see if it makes any difference to me.

[redisman]

Just the Hifi level is probably enough for almost any system. I also noticed a huge difference coming from YouTube and Spotify on the Hifi setting in Tidal. I didn’t bother with Master as my ears aren’t that magical

[dehrmann]

Placebo effect disproves Nyquist–Shannon Theorem.

[djxfade]

Nah that's just Tidals marketing talking. "Anyone" can submit music to Tidal through services like DistroKid etc. However, to get the Tidal "MASTER" badge on your song, you basically just have to pay them extra. I don't need to submit another file to them, so it's the same master. It might be that they do some post-processing on it, but it's not the revolutionary thing they make it out to be.

[redisman]

There are some genres - Jazz, Classical as the most prominent that have aged better than most 60s-80s music