Nooseybear t1_jacxybc wrote on February 28, 2023 at 3:23 PM

My solution is to use the Ifi Go Blu (more power on balanced out, good battery life) and use the PEQ from Poweramp Equaliser (which is system wide for Android and should therefore work with Tidal).

MyUserNameIsTooLong1 OP t1_jadopz7 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 6:15 PM

Don't work offline. I like to use the i4s in the park. :)

Nooseybear t1_jadsnuo wrote on February 28, 2023 at 6:40 PM

Why would it not work offline?

Edit: for clarification, Poweramp Equaliser is not a 3rd party player but an Android systemwide equaliser.

MyUserNameIsTooLong1 OP t1_jaer6rd wrote on February 28, 2023 at 10:21 PM

Because tidal offline mode doesn't allow any third party applications to take control at all. It streams in direct mode which bypasses all mixing on on your device. The reason the 5k works is because its peq is an actual hardware chip. It an actual digital dsp attenuator, which is drastically superior. Also it looks to be a GEQ not PEQ . Are the bands completely customisable, with their own select filter set and q value? No where in there marketing does it look like its using a PEQ, rather a fixed 5 band GEQ. Is that correct?

Nooseybear t1_jaf2d6w wrote on February 28, 2023 at 11:40 PM

Poweramp Equaliser is a PEQ with fully customisable bands. It's also quite cheap so worth a try just in case it does end up working for you. I use it for Spotify both online and offline without any problems. Didn't know that Tidal offline was so unnecessarily restrictive...