In Reply to: RE: Mastersound (MQA) on Tidal streaming posted by PAR on January 6, 2017 at 03:15:15:
"the full MQA process involves the MQA system " knowing" what the DAC employed for replay is"
There is no way the MQA encoding can know what the replay dac is.
In these cases MQA uses a generic system that guesses at the typical dac playback charecteristics. Doing this a stand alone decoder will be feasable. In fact most of these older albums on tidal that have been MQA encoded don't even know what the recording ADA was. Again they are just guessing
Alan
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