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In Reply to: RE: Charles, Please tell me if this makes sense. posted by Jim Austin on June 01, 2017 at 04:53:40
>that JAES conference proceeding that outlines the MQA approach (without ever mentioning
>those three letters) is completely clear about the two families of MQA files, 44.1 and 48.
>One is not converted into the other; they remain separate. . . They go on to give a recipe for
>converting, eg, 192 to 176.4, but it's clear they think such a procedure would not be
>satisfactory at lower sampling rates.
The exception is when a 48kHz-family master is MQA-encoded as a CD, which, of course,
mandates a 44.1kHz rate. For example, the Piazzola CD started out as a 192kHz master
that had to sample-rate converted to 176.4kHz before being encoded as an MQA stream.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
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