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RE: How do YOU feel about MQA?

Posted by fmak on October 26, 2016 at 23:55:10:
It is difficult to have 'feelings' as most of us can't hear it properly. What I did do was to download the 2L files and compared them to the native DXD recordings w/o a MQA dac. What I heard was not worth bothering about.

What I do know is that Meridian has considerable expertise in processing 16 bit CD recordings with their Mastering processors. I own one of these and enjoyed Cds with adjustments of dither functions and depths. This made Red Book quite a bit more listenable to me.

Perhaps parts of MQA have been based on this, in the attempt to make the hardware and software into a commercially closed system to generate more revenue. Hence the secrecy and control that other companies had pioneered in the introduction of 'new' formats. The history of success in this regard has been chequered.