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RE: Stereophile: Get your story straight on MQA Please

Posted by Jim Austin on November 1, 2016 at 16:16:01:
Your questions reveal that you understand the technology you criticize very poorly, and that you're arguing in bad faith--trying to save face, or show others up, instead of engaging in an honest disagreement.
I can't speak for JA and won't try to, but I will try to correct your false assumptions. This is the last time I'll be replying to you.
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>>"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...<<
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I'll start at the end. Bob Stuart--obviously--said no such thing, unless you twist his words beyond recognition. JA's point here--and this couldn't be plainer--is that MQA won't help CDs sitting on your shelf. Bob Stuart is saying that when there's nothing else (or nothing better) available, a rip from a CD can be used as a master file to create MQA files for streaming or download. In using the word "download," JA was distinguishing music that starts out on a server somewhere and music on a disc sitting on your CD shelf.
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>>"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."<<
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I direct this comment not to the poster but to anyone else who might be reading this, as clear evidence that he's arguing in bad faith. Below you'll see the comment thread (on a Stereophile post) that this comment (directly above) is drawn from. How likely is it, do you think, that the poster did not read down a few lines and see JA's NEXT reply?

Good day.