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Stereophile: Get your story straight on MQA Please

Posted by Isaak J. Garvey on October 30, 2016 at 13:04:39:
Dec 2014/January 2015:
http://www.stereophile.com/content/meridians-mqa-one-listeners-impression#02tfU5XzxhKmfeHE.97
"As MQA needs to be applied at the mastering stage in a recording's production, it doesn't improve the sound quality of your existing CD collection. It is really only relevant to downloads."
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
"MQA need to be applied at the mastering stage".
We know this to be totally untrue, as Warner as batch converted files using MQA. Does anyone one know of a single mastering engineer who has "mastered with MQA"?
"Only relevant to downloads?"
We that to be untrue as the one of the major selling points of MQA is streaming.
"..it doesn't improve the sound quality of your existing CD collection."
Really? Bob Stuart says it magically does:
"Sometimes even a CD rip might indeed be used as a master...
http://www.stereophile.com/content/mqa-and-warner-real-scoop#TPEIubLGUViLvjyS.97
"No, there is no compatibility between MQA and DSD. Which should not be surprising, given that Bob Stuart has always been a very vocal critic of the DSD concept."
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
"We haven't done the DSD yet, but that should be easy to do."
Bob Stuart, 2016
There is more, a lot more.