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?
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Topic - Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - magiccarpetride 09:30:23 05/15/17 (41)
- THe DAC, the cables.. all sorts of reasons BESIDES 'MQA' possible. nt - 3+4=5 18:39:24 05/17/17 (0)
- " Simply going from MQA to CD the music just died." - soulfood 17:35:01 05/16/17 (2)
- RE: " Simply going from MQA to CD the music just died." - Todd Krieger 14:38:49 05/17/17 (1)
- RE: " Simply going from MQA to CD the music just died." - magiccarpetride 15:03:29 05/17/17 (0)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - b.l.zeebub 01:32:07 05/16/17 (1)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - magiccarpetride 09:34:07 05/16/17 (0)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - SoundMann 15:14:26 05/15/17 (0)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - Todd Krieger 14:26:05 05/15/17 (0)
- without knowing what "MQA" is, I am clueless (nt) - mhardy6647 12:24:15 05/15/17 (3)
- MQA...... - Todd Krieger 14:32:02 05/15/17 (0)
- RE: without knowing what "MQA" is, I am clueless (nt) - magiccarpetride 12:31:30 05/15/17 (1)
- thanks - mhardy6647 13:27:08 05/15/17 (0)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - G Squared 12:08:21 05/15/17 (8)
- The best/most likely response in the thread - mlsstl 20:12:40 05/16/17 (7)
- RE: The best/most likely response in the thread - magiccarpetride 11:04:34 05/17/17 (5)
- RE: The best/most likely response in the thread - ahendler 11:22:34 05/17/17 (4)
- RE: The best/most likely response in the thread - magiccarpetride 11:36:37 05/17/17 (3)
- RE: The best/most likely response in the thread - ahendler 13:33:59 05/17/17 (2)
- RE: The best/most likely response in the thread - magiccarpetride 13:51:11 05/17/17 (1)
- RE: The best/most likely response in the thread - ahendler 18:14:29 05/17/17 (0)
- RE: The best/most likely response in the thread - ahendler 21:09:31 05/16/17 (0)
- As our ear gets more sophisticated, our ability to pick up small nuances is greatly increased.. so... - 3+4=5 11:46:52 05/15/17 (0)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - PAR 09:57:26 05/15/17 (3)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - magiccarpetride 10:40:40 05/15/17 (2)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - JonM 11:22:42 05/15/17 (1)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - magiccarpetride 11:27:50 05/15/17 (0)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - SpotcheckBilly12345 09:45:17 05/15/17 (14)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - magiccarpetride 09:57:48 05/15/17 (13)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - SpotcheckBilly12345 11:37:18 05/16/17 (0)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - oldmkvi 10:51:30 05/15/17 (10)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - magiccarpetride 10:55:26 05/15/17 (9)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - oldmkvi 11:03:12 05/15/17 (8)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - ahendler 13:20:23 05/15/17 (1)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - magiccarpetride 13:35:03 05/15/17 (0)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - magiccarpetride 11:14:50 05/15/17 (5)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - oldmkvi 11:26:08 05/15/17 (4)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - magiccarpetride 11:31:03 05/15/17 (3)
- Nice stuff, but - E-Stat 14:40:40 05/15/17 (2)
- RE: Nice stuff, but - magiccarpetride 15:02:42 05/15/17 (1)
- Why soitainly! - E-Stat 15:12:10 05/15/17 (0)
- RE: Can audio component sales personnel play tricks on customers? - E-Stat 10:06:59 05/15/17 (0)