In Reply to: RE: Comparisons/Marketing/Etc. posted by Doug Schneider on October 28, 2016 at 09:19:42:
I would like to report on something our club did about 4 months ago. It is the River City Audio Society in San Antonio Texas. I purchased a Meridian Explorer2 with MQA decoding. I then went to The 2L Audio testbench and downloaded 12 tracks both in 16/44 and MQA. Both are derived from the same DXD master.. At our meeting we had about 20 people and set up a system with B&W speakers and Audio Research tube integrated amps. The files were played from JRiver 21 on a Macbook Pro. I simply would play the 16/44 file followed by the MQA file and then asked for opinions. After all the tracks were played the results were as follow. 5 out of 20 felt they heard differences but they were small . 15 people said they heard no difference in any of the comparisons. Of the 5 who heard something the term natural came up the most. I do want to say that the 2L files are so good it is hard to hear differences among any of the different different formats they offer. I am still waiting for streaming so I have a lot more music available to listen to.
Alan
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Follow Ups
- RE: Comparisons/Marketing/Etc. - ahendler 11:11:54 10/28/16 (8)
- What!!! No Crying?? No Fits of Ecstasy?? Nothing like that video on the MQA site? No birth of new world? nt - bjh 14:26:57 10/28/16 (0)
- Great Story -- But Small Differences Again... - Doug Schneider 11:56:43 10/28/16 (6)
- RE: Great Story -- But Small Differences Again... - ahendler 14:19:55 10/28/16 (1)
- RE: Great Story -- But Small Differences Again... - Doug Schneider 14:32:05 10/28/16 (0)
- RE: Great Story -- But Small Differences Again... - Isaak J. Garvey 12:02:43 10/28/16 (3)
- RE: Great Story -- But Small Differences Again... - Doug Schneider 12:12:45 10/28/16 (1)
- RE: Great Story -- But Small Differences Again... - Isaak J. Garvey 12:16:59 10/28/16 (0)
- I wonder how much Robert Harley was paid? - hawkmoon 12:11:03 10/28/16 (0)