Can Uniti Nova stream Tidal tracks greater than 44.1/16-bit

As far as I know, Tidal 24/96 streaming is MQA encoded. Naim do not support MQA in their streamers. If you search the forum for MQA you'll find various ways people use MQA, and also find varying views on MQA.

Thank you kindly Eoink - I have read the other threads on MQA; I haven't been able to stream it, so I have no opinion on it.  I didn't realize that Tidal's higher quality encodings were _only_ available as MQA and not as FLAC.  That is a bummer.  I guess you can add me to the folks who wish that Naim would add support for MQA.

CaptainJack posted:

I am using the Naim app on iOS and have it connected to my Tidal account.  I am trying to stream the 96 kHz 24-bit version of an album (Yuja Wang and Gustavo Dudamel with Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra performing Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3) to my Uniti Nova.  The album metadata on Tidal unambiguously states "96 kHz / 24 Bit / Live From Caracas".  Yet the Naim app reports "FLAC 44.1kHz 16bit".

Given that I am using the Naim app, and that my Nova is connected to a hard-wired network, and that the Nova claims to support 24bit/384kHz FLAC and "All formats to 384kHz maximum over wireless network", why isn't the Naim app streaming the 24-bit/96kHz version of this album? 

Is this a limitation of the Nova itself, the app, of Tidal, or ?

There were some older threads - it only supports CD quality Tidal.

You can if you use Roon as your music server  or stream from computer  desktop app via Chromecast but will only get the first unfold to 96/24 

Hi Captainjack

I use Audirvarna to administrate Tidal, and chooses my Naim streaming equipment through preferences as player... It works like a charm and I get to use the 24 bit resolution - and pretty sure I get to use 192kHz... will check later on

Happy listening