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In Reply to: RE: Agree with this sentiment posted by knewton on February 15, 2017 at 12:55:49
Can't help thinking MQA's window of opportunity is limited. And certainly dwindling, albeit slowly. Essentially, a clever bit of 'non-DRM' DRM.However, I think it is building in format obsolescence in ways (IT) we may regret in the future, rather like HDCD (nice as that was - but where is it now?).
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
Edits: 02/16/17Follow Ups:
" HDCD (nice as that was - but where is it now?)."
The answer as best as I can recall is that it is with Microsoft who bought Pacific Microsonics and then just warehoused the technology.
I like your analogy and just as HDCDs can still be played on standard CD players ( albeit without the additional information being extracted), MQA files can still be played on non-MQA equipment.
Will MQA succeed? I have expressed my doubts before and am happy to repeat them. In fact I think that their chance of success is now even less than two years ago. I just do not think that hi-rez streaming will ever reach a tipping point with subscriber numbers so as to become economically viable. And no hi-rez streaming = no MQA.
All very sad as I love my Qobuz subscription ( a new desktop player available from today with advantages including what is apparently a revised sound engine with JAS approval - I will install it tomorrow).
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