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In Reply to: RE: Great Story -- But Small Differences Again... posted by Doug Schneider on October 28, 2016 at 11:56:43
Doug:
This has been my concern as well. The only group that consistently seems to be utterly knocked out by MQA are a relatively small group of audio writers..maybe a dozen?
I have read about similar group tests like Alans, as many as 10 others written about on regional audiophile society pages and other forums like Audiocircle, and NONE, not one, had the same reactions as the press. Yes, some heard a difference, some preferred it, some did not. But the huge difference in reaction between ordinary listeners and reviewers is just too large to ignore.
Not once did I encounter the word "stunning", or a phrase like a "new era in digital".
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I'm not sure it's a dozen!
As far as I can tell, there are two aspects to MQA:
1) Compression -- this is useful for folks with bandwidth issues. I'm not one of them (heck, my generous cellphone plan now follows me around the world), but for those who are, knock your socks off and use it.
2) Sound Improvement -- this is all that interests me. This supposed "time-smearing" fix.
Out of those two things we have gotten from -- I'd argue, less than a dozen -- absolute raves that this encoding scheme is the Next Big Thing. But the company won't do comparisons, and when they are done, they're small to nonexistent. It makes me wonder, too.
Doug
Well..Robert Harley, John Darko, Lavorgna, Jim Austin, John Atkinson, and little tid bits from show reports from a few others. So yeh, maybe you are right. I think Chris Connaker has beeen mostly neutral leaning slightly positive when he was sent a Meridian DAC and files.Darko is interesting because he used his usual technique, feigning tremendous skepticism, and then having a "conversion."
Edits: 10/28/16 10/28/16
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