MoWePhoto t1_j58yyeu wrote on January 21, 2023 at 6:19 AM

Hi! Do you use Tidal through UAPP? Or do you use the AMP directly with Tidal app?

Does your phone ask if you want to give tidal/UAPP access to your DAC? It has to for the MQA throughput to work. If it doesn't ask, the audio signal is down sampled by Android and then given to the DAC.

Also are you sure, that the light turn red or is it just also red as well as blue to create purple but only if looking from the right angle?

I have a HiBy FC4 which does MQA and indicates quality if the played back file with the LED. And there are times, that I misinterpret the LED because of the viewing angle...

Apart from all this. Does the setup sound great to you? Does it change sound with MQA vs no MQA?

All_hail_Korrok OP t1_j58zne7 wrote on January 21, 2023 at 6:27 AM

Hello!

I signed on my tidal account through the UAPP app.

Every time I plug in the ztella DAC it gives me that prompt and I allow it access.

I will feel like the idiot of the year if that was the case, but no it's definitely red, but I'll double check in a minute. *It's definitely red lol.

Honestly, yea it does sound better. I just feel that it's my phone not allowing MQA to pass through since others have said the pixel 6pro gave them similar issues.

MoWePhoto t1_j592l7b wrote on January 21, 2023 at 7:03 AM

I have worked in Sales and Support for nearly twenty years and if you experience all the problems, the customers have, you start searching for them on your own devices and start doubting your own reason. That's pretty much the same with doing.to much research on possible problems online.

Your Pixel6 asks for allowance. Your DAC recognizes it by indicating the pass through via LED. So I would imagine it works. What it doesn't do is change led colour by audio format. Could that the format is not transmitted. Could also be that the driver doesn't communicate the led change correctly.

What happens to the LED when you plug your DAC into windows and use Tidal from the desktop. My HiBy is much more reliable in terms of LED change with Windows than with my Sony Xperia....