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In Reply to: RE: Mastersound (MQA) on Tidal streaming posted by TubeDriver on January 05, 2017 at 15:52:44
Anyone know who's selling just the decoder for the MQA files (no DAC)? I just listened to Allen Toussaint's American Tunes on Tidal-Master selection at 24/384 and was very impressed and pleased at the increase in the quality of the sound. Excellent for just $19.99.
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There is not at the moment a stand alone MQA decoder. But with Tidal now streaming MQA files this will eventually happen
Alan
Alan, I am not sure that is correct. As I understand it, the full MQA process involves the MQA system " knowing" what the DAC employed for replay is (it also needs to know what the encoding ADC was for mastering). So a decoder sans DAC is not feasible for the system (unless we universally adopt a standard DAC).
There will , of course, be (as there are now) standalone DACS with MQA inbuilt.
Regards
Pete
"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
likely that is enough information for TIDAL to know that the DAC I am using is not a MQA licensed device?
Hard to know exactly what firmware/software is included in a MQA license that allows decoding of the 'folded' packet.
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