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I'll stick to the technical points then

Posted by Dave_K on November 3, 2016 at 08:57:34

In Reply to: Guys, pleeeze... posted by 13th Duke of Wymbourne on November 2, 2016 at 18:46:13:

I edited my post and deleted the last paragraph. It was kind of beside the point.

The main point I really wanted to convey was that when employed as an end to end technology such that the system impulse response described in the Stuart paper is achieved, the result is a blurring of the signal. Conventional anti-aliasing and reconstruction filters do not blur, and when employed at higher samples rates where the cutoff is above the musical spectrum they don't add any ringing either. Using a high enough sample rate eliminates the problem of filter artifacts that plagues Redbook. No Meridian special sauce is required. I find it ironic that Stuart & co. are marketing MQA as an end to end technology that minimizes temporal blur, when the reality is that they have chosen a target impulse response that adds blur.

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