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Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers?
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Posted on May 15, 2017 at 09:30:23 | ||
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I've been on few occasions in the position where some high end audio store was demoing some systems/components to me, and the back-and-forth switching almost always made for an extremely impressive experience. Like "here is configuration A, give it a good listen; now, here is configuration B -- ta-da!!!" Those stunts always made me think in the back of my head -- "there must be a trick to this..." My latest impression: MQA. Listened to John Coltrane "Giant Steps" in MQA format. Sounded bloody awesome! I could easily follow every Coltrane's nuance on the tenor sax, things I've never heard before because of the blinding speed of his playing. Then listened to the same track in red book format -- the music just collapsed. Everything else remaining equal -- same volume, same configuration. Simply going from MQA to CD the music just died. How's that possible? Is there a trick to it, or is it really such a genuine improvement? |
RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers?, posted on May 15, 2017 at 09:45:17 | |
Can't answer logically without system details. Cheers, SB |
thanks, posted on May 15, 2017 at 13:27:08 | |
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I actually stumbled across it again today in a slightly different context (see link below) -- having had two run-ins with an unfamiliar three letter acronym* (uTLA) in one day, I decided to look it up! ;-) It's apparently a proprietary thing, too (imagine that). ------- * Technically it ("MQA") is not a TLA. An "Acronym" is supposed to be pronounceable. MQA is not pronounceable (except, perhaps in Maltese, Hawaiian, or some other native American languages). NASA is an acronym; AFL-CIO is not. acronym vs. initialism all the best, mrh |
Why soitainly!, posted on May 15, 2017 at 15:12:10 | |
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I asked the same question back in February. Responses found here. Your 5V battery supply will work the RPi, but you most likely will need a different cable. Fortunately, getting a USB to mini-USB is pretty easy. |
RE: " Simply going from MQA to CD the music just died.", posted on May 17, 2017 at 15:03:29 | |
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Haha! |
THe DAC, the cables.. all sorts of reasons BESIDES 'MQA' possible. nt, posted on May 17, 2017 at 18:39:24 | |
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