Sound Quality : Tidal Connect versus Tidal from Naim app

[Suedkiez]

This from Steve might be helpful:

Tidal Connect

Hi All, Lots of questions / comments etc. on Tidal Connect. Maybe i can shine some light on the subject. Tidal Connect is an alternative way to play Tidal using their native apps rather than a third party solution. The app acts as a control point which talks to the TIDAL servers in the cloud and a ‘play queue in the cloud’ then drives the streamer on what to play next. So what’s hot and what’s not with this: Pros: Fully buffered lossless playback. Uses the 50MB cache inside the …

I.e., when using the Naim app, it tells the streamer an URL to play. Using Tidal Connect, the Tidal app tells the streamer an URL to play. In both cases, the streamer then fetches the data from the URL without involving the app, and if I understand Steve correctly, from this point on there is very little difference in the implementation