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Gasp! More Jaws Dropping over MQA in Los Angeles!
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Posted on June 11, 2017 at 10:11:22 | ||
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"When Peter then played the MQA version, my jaw dropped-this was not the recording with which I was familiar. This was now a live string quartet playing in front of me. The music made instant sense in a way that it had taken me a long time to comprehend from the PCM original." I found this particularly shocking: "Some have argued that a mastering engineer could achieve the same effect through the application of EQ and more sophisticated DSP tools, but I don't think so. Such processes can make something sound different but not more real, which I have found is the consistent effect of MQA encoding." Incredibly speculative, eh? And JVS comes right along to gently pick his jaw back up! What team work! ""It's like you could take a knife and cut through all the noise," I wrote in my notes. The experience left me questioning the whole audiophile notion of "air," and wondering if what we commonly refer to as "air" is, at least in part, a by-product of timing errors that convey noise and haze where there were originally space and silence." So just like Robert Harley, JVS needs a new vocabulary to describe what he hears. Hmmm So now that the bandwidth "problem" has been debunked, they are locking into the "timing error" thing. That seems to be the strategy going forward. |
:-) nt, posted on June 11, 2017 at 17:08:30 | |
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Oh yeah? I'm listening to a cassette of Joe Henderson playing Jobim tunes. Enjoying the shit out of it :-) nt, posted on June 11, 2017 at 17:51:29 | |
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Have that on a double LP w/Tetragon. Mike Lawrence was a good friend. Happy listening! nt, posted on June 12, 2017 at 09:24:42 | |
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RE: Depends on who 'they' is...., posted on June 12, 2017 at 09:59:39 | |
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Location: Hollywod, CA Joined: January 7, 2016 |
Stay tuned, I have information on that... |
Emailed ya. nt, posted on June 13, 2017 at 17:37:52 | |
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Wow! Sounds More Like Pants Dropping ..........., posted on June 14, 2017 at 06:44:41 | |
........... considering the source ;-) Cheers, SB |