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In Reply to: RE: Is MQA technology getting closer to us? posted by Jaundiced Ear on August 19, 2016 at 19:09:31
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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