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In Reply to: RE: MQA questions posted by Michael Lavorgna on January 17, 2016 at 13:37:36
I totally agree with waiting for a while as things sort themselves out. The problem is MQA is being hyped so strongly before it is really market ready. When Tidal or Classicsonline have 1000's of titles encoded and there is available software decoders it will have a chance. I think discussions like this are harmful to MQA. By the way having spent many years on the asylum I have learned a lot from Tony and strongly believe his point of view on the MQA rollout.
Alan
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Seeing as the OP suggested MQA could be a "hoax", I think it's gone pretty well ;-)
Cheers,
Michael Lavorgna
Editor, AudioStream.com
The only "hoax" part is that it can automatically make up for deficiencies in recordings. However, the fact that it is being promoted as doing this is enough for me to dismiss its promoters as scammers, especially those who know enough not to fool themselves, you know, people who are Fellow of the AES.
As an effective way to squeeze more subjective quality into a 44/24 container I have no problem, except that there is no point in doing this because bits are cheap these days. The only possible case where bandwidth is scarce today is for streaming applications, and most people who stream music do so as background music, rather than critical listening and there is no need for extra resolution in the first place. Ten years ago, or so, when Stewart came up with his ideas for this style of perceptual compression bandwidth was much more costly and there might have been some economic benefit from this technology. That day is long past.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
JPlay?
Could be. ;-)
I don't believe that the majority of asylum inmates feel MQA is a hoax. It seems the questions are basically how well it actually works and the implementation of trying it
Alan
And I heard one of Bob Stuart's talks at RMAF last year.Lots of problems described. Lots of discussion about how great things sounded when said problems were solved. Lots of talk about MQA fixing said problems but not really how this will all work. Hardware? Software?
Or even exactly what MQA end to end actually entails. Recording? Transcribing? What about MY end? DAC? Software?That said, there were a fair number of credible folks who have direct experience with whatever MQA is who think it great.
We'll just have to wait and see, I guess.
In the mean time, if we post enough about it here, maybe Tony's head will finally explode! =:-0
Edits: 01/17/16
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