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In Reply to: Sorry, wrong nomenclature posted by Charles Hansen on June 6, 2017 at 22:19:11:
No, I think you got my point.You might find these paragraphs interesting from the sole article written about MQA in Sound On Sound magazine, read widely by production professionals. I has been linked here a few times already.
"The obvious final question, though, must be: does it really sound better than conventional hi-res digital recordings? I'd like to be able to give a confident and definitive Yes in response... but I'm not sure I can just yet. That's not because I wasn't impressed with what I heard, but because I wasn't sufficiently familiar either with the Meridian replay systems used to audition a variety of MQA recordings, or the source material itself, to form a totally confident opinion."
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"Comparing MQA and conventional hi-res files wasn't a blatant 'night and day' kind of difference."
Finally, and more to the point of our exchange:
"For the professional market, MQA decoding and encoding could be achieved very conveniently and practically with a bespoke DAW plug-in, and MQA are already working on releasing a professional decoder plug-in later this year. However, the substantial temporal benefits of the MQA format are only achieved with total control over the complete end-to-end encode/decode process, so any MQA encoder plug-in would need to be user-configurable to account for the time-domain behaviour of the specific A-D converters being used and, ideally, that of any analogue hardware in the chain, too. This is not impossible, but it would be a very complex task that would require a lot of testing of legacy hardware converters to establish a workable time-domain database. So, perhaps MQA-compatible hardware A-D converters would be a more practical first step... and various manufacturers are already working on that."
Edits: 06/07/17
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- RE: Sorry, wrong nomenclature - Isaak J. Garvey 10:13:51 06/07/17 (0)
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