Typically, those albums are encoded as a 48kHz MQA file. Meaning TIDAL will perform the decoding to a 96kHz audio stream with the MQA renderer handling the further decoding, which has nothing to do with our products. This is how MQA & Tidal works. To test that the actual audio stream in TIDAL is 48kHz, please select “MQA pass-through”. It is 96kHz if TIDAL decodes MQA, it is 48kHz on MQA pass-through.
Question: But I thought the file was 192kHz remastered?
Answer: Yes, meaning it was MQA encoded from a 192kHz remaster. Our MQA implementation handles up to 384kHz MQA sources correctly according to MQA specifications.
