No longer MQA when using TIDAL

Yes, I upgraded according to your instructions, then I did a net and system reset, it wrote it’s done.
After connecting the HDMI ARC cable, the TV does not find the Arcam, but before the update it worked well, although sometimes it didn’t work.
Now I’m testing it again and it cost nothing.
The display probably works.
It annoys me again, what about that.
For several years, I have been using a Japanese manufacturer and I have never had a defect. There is still something here.

Have you set all options related to HDMI/TV to “Auto” in SA30 menu?
There are 3 - TV Power, TV Audio and TV Volume.
By default they are off.

Can you tell in English what is the issue with display? I’m Polish, so i could understand something, but am not sure if i get it 100% right :slight_smile:
Anyway i don’t have any issues with the display on the beta/RC firmware, so either there is some issue with your device, or it didn’t flash correctly.

Hello, so I installed new software and MQA works with TIDAL again.
Unfortunately, there are new problems.

diplay gets stuck, which means it sometimes doesn’t show what’s playing.
In addition, my ARC HDMI does not work at all, the TV cannot find the Arcam even after disconnecting and reconnecting the HDMI cable.
Please, give me an advice.
So something was fixed, but it also went wrong.

Now they find out that while listening to the internet radio or TIDAL, Arcam cuts himself after a while and jumps in after the PVR output.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to use at all now.

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I went through the setup and I have everything on the car.
As I bought it, I just plugged it in and the TV recognized everything myself until I updated it.
Now ARC HDMI doesn’t work at all.
I don’t know what to do anymore and I’m unhappy about it.

So I had to use the original software again so that I could at least use TIDAL in normal quality without MQA.
Tidal and internet radio got stuck with new software after 5 minutes.
My settings fooled me and I couldn’t get into it sometimes.
HDMI ARC does not react at all with the original software.
So now I really don’t know what to do with him.

Now I have noticed that my original version is set to ARC version 0.0, which is probably wrong and therefore HDMI does not respond at all.

You need to reset your ARC board. I will send you instructions.

Hello Paul.

Any news for the avr users?

Kind regards
Heico

Hi @Heieno this update is also coming to the AVR, I’m unsure of the timeline though.

Hi,

are you planning to add spotify connect?

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Hi @bleq I’m unable to comment on the road map at this time. One of the benefits of being a software based platform is we can continually issue improvements and additional services down the line. I’m sorry that’s a vague answer to your question, but that’s all I have right now.

Maybe a stupid question, but why do you need Spotify Connect? How is it better than Chromecast?
Tidal Connect is different story, as Chromecast doesn’t support MQA, but there’s no such requirement for Spotify.

Spotify is planning add some kind of master audio and I prefer spotify app. Best “easy to use” for me and my wife. I dont like tidal and hate music life app.
Im waiting for new update, issue with no sound after turn of when using streaming is annoying.

I have another question, when I turning on my Arcam with remote controller then it turning on my philips TV, how to disable this option?

What i meant, is that you can use Spotify app and cast to amp using Chromecast, rather than Spotify Connect. Functionality and sound quality will be the same.

I know nothing about this bug. Can you provide a bit more details? Are you on latest 1206 firmware, or older 1027? If you are on 1206, have you made a net and system reset?

You can try to disable “tv power” option in SA30 menu, but than your TV will not be switching on the amp.
I don’t have such issue with LG tv, and I didn’t have it with panasonic. Probably Philips has yet another CEC implementation. Anyway Paul mentioned that some CEC fixes are in the pipeline.

I had a problem after waking up, no sound on all sources when listening via network earlier.

Today I updated to 1.72 and I have a problem with Arc ver, I sent PM to Paul.

PS Felix are you on the Polish forum audiostereo.pl?

Yes, i am, using same nickname.

Is there any update on the mqa issue on the SA30? After latest software update I am still not able to play mqa files via musiclife and Tidal, it shows mp3 quality when a mqa album is played, did I miss something any fix available? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated as I have this issue since months. Thanks!