In Reply to: On the blurriness of MQA posted by Dave_K on November 2, 2016 at 12:38:32:
It seems many have ideological objections to a proprietary encoding format. Fair enough, but please don't second guess the technical aspects to justify the objection. That way madness lies. Bob Stuart's paper shows that the end-to-end dispersion of a 192kHz linear phase system is much more than MQA.
Interesting that MP3 is brought up in this thread. I think of them as similar, in broad terms: MP3 analyses the signal and throws away signal in as harmless a way as possible to fit a given data rate, MQA analyses the signal and throws away only unoccupied dynamic range to reduce the bit-rate. Of course, I might be wrong, but I like that analogy.
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13DoW
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- Guys, pleeeze... - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 18:46:13 11/02/16 (3)
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