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In Reply to: RE: Is MQA technology getting closer to us? posted by Frihed89 on August 18, 2016 at 14:02:39
I have heard it. I like it.
But until Tidal starts streaming MQA, if ever, It will not make it. The hardware is out there but almost no software. Every time MQA is interviewed they always say they can't comment on what the software industry is going to do. They are killing there own product unless they give some real answers to the software delivery schedule
Alan
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You like it? Great! That does not mean that Mr. Market will like it, or even know about it.
Audiophiles are such a tiny percentage of the overall market, and even Audiophiles likely will disagree over MQA's sonic merits, further reducing MQA's potential market. I don't think that Tidal streaming will be enough to get MQA to anything but a niche product.
Now if Apple were to pick it up and start including it in their products...
JE
"A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all." - William James
I really don't care about what the general market has to say about MQA. They don't care about Hi-Rez either. As long as companies will continue to supply our small niche market with devices and software that make our music sound great that is what I care about. Tidal will maybe stream MQA for the nitch market. The mass market who don't know what it is will continue to do whatever they are doing. I don't care
Alan
Ah, but Mr. Market will determine the scope, breadth and depth of the musical libraries available on MQA. Mr. Market will determine the number of and the functionality of the DACs capable of playing MQA encoded music.
If you want to limit yourself to a handful of multi-kilobuck priced MQA compatible DACs and a laughably skinny selection of MQA compatible tracks, then help yourself.
Meanwhile, if I might humbly suggest, when you aren't so whipped up to be a discriminating audiophile, standard Redbook can provide quite satisfying playback. You don't have to tell anyone, but there it is for your enjoyment.
JE
"A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all." - William James
I love redbook. Many cds and stream from Tidal. Mr. market did not drive DSD or all the dacs out there that play it.The hardware people and there are now a few that have MQA are not being driven by the market but by us (audiophiles). If Tidal streams MQA and with my $299 Meridian dac I will be ok with that
Alan
Apple is not going to pick up MQA.
They would not be so silly to do it! It makes little sense to maintain the infrastructure for such a proprietary system. They're more likely to go with lossless streaming 16/44 like Tidal than pick this up.
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That was a joke. See below.But can you think of a quicker way for MQA, or indeed for any way for MQA to reach mass acceptance?
I sure cannot. MQA is an answer to a question that nobody asked.
JE
"A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all." - William James
Edits: 08/20/16
.....MQA is an answer to a question that nobody asked.
Precisely. It is a solution to a problem that does not exist.
This is Meridian's attempt at getting audiophiles and the industry drunk on their marketing Kool-Aid in order to generate licensing revenue for their unneeded proprietary technology.
Create enough buzz around MQA so the press have something to write about and convince buyers that they need it. Hype creates demand. Now force DAC manufacturers to pay licensing fees to incorporate the unneeded proprietary technology, and pass the expense on to the buyers.
No thank you.
Sorry JE, missed the joke in the thread I guess :-).
Agree.
As far as I know, the masses did not ask for hi-res streaming. And certainly nobody asked for this kind of strange hodge-podge of proprietary encoding, lossy ultrasonic reconstruction, strange claim of time-domain accuracy (hard to imagine how they can achieve this in the vast majority of records), etc.
I really cannot imagining anyone thinking the scheme is such a good idea if one took some time to consider what they're doing, the obvious limitations, and loss of freedoms for end users with standard DACs and ability to use DSP.
IMO, this will obviously fail. It was destined to be so since the beginning simply because it doesn't offer anything of obvious benefit.
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Archimago's Musings : A 'more objective' audiophile blog.
No worries.
Folks can take this stuff so seriously that it's easy not to notice when someone has their tongue in their cheek.
JE
"A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all." - William James
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