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In Reply to: RE: A CHORD DAC Review, or more MQA PR? posted by Isaak J. Garvey on May 22, 2017 at 18:47:03
>John Atkinson reviews the Chord DAVE (it's already online) and faults it
>for not offering MQA.
I think you missed the word "if" in what I wrote: "There are two unanswered
questions, however...The other concerns MQA. If that format gains in
acceptance, then the DAVE will never be able to get the best from it:
MQA's and Rob Watts's ideas on filter design are incompatible."
>Is Chord supposed to toss aside more than two decades of their own
>digital development and pay royalties to Bob Stuart?
If there is a pull from the market for MQA, then Chord will have to make
a decision. But as MQA-compatible processors from Mytek and Meridian
offer a choice between the MQA filter and one or more conventional filters
for playback of non-MQA recordings, that is a strategy they could explore.
>Why is MQA mentioned no less than half a dozen times in a review of a
>DAC that will decode 99.999999999% of all digital music out there?
My primary reference for the Chord review was the MQA-enabled Meridian
UltraDAC that I had reviewed in the previous issue. I thought it relevant,
therefore, to compare the sound of the Chord decoding MQA files streamed
from Tidal with the app doing the first unfold to PCM with the Meridian
doing the complete MQA unfolding.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Follow Ups:
I may be hallucinating, but didn't you buy the PS Audio DirectStream DAC?If so, it would boggle the mind why that would not be used as a comparison reference....
EDIT;
Nope, it seems I still still cling to some semblance of reality:
"I had purchased our original review sample of this processor following Art Dudley's favorable review in September 2014, and I had upgraded it, in the summer of 2015, to the Yale operating system, which I prefer to the earlier Pikes Peak and v.1.2.1 versions."
Read more at https://www.stereophile.com/content/ps-audio-perfectwave-directstream-da-processor-more-torreys#LY467jYxs2fd4x8e.99
Edits: 05/23/17
Hmmm.... that would have been a more fair comparison (PS Audio vs Chord) based on cost and formats.
..yes, a no brainer.
But the PS Audio DAC would not have presented opportunities to blather on about MQA.
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I am betting the Meridian DAC will be a long term loan/reference, so that MQA gets to be mentioned in every DAC review for the near future.
Chord will not have to make any decisions about MQA. Just like Schiit audio made no concessions to DSD and most of their DAC models are back ordered.
Judging digital components based on unicorn "formats" is absurd.
Still waiting for the DSD downloads.
What?
You're not trying very hard...!
680 DSD64 downloads on superhirez.com, the largest vendor. Under 200 rock and pop.
680 since the "big announcement" in 2013.
For esoteric genres there is more available elsewhere, and they are expensive.
Pretty much all classical and supposedly sourced from DSD masters (not converted).
Not that I have any skin in the DSD game as my Multi-Bit DAC doesn't do DSD.
Link below:
0.001% of available content. ;)
THAT'S the question. ;-)
I know very well that there are probably several thousand classical DSD downloads available..vintage analog converted, and numerous pure direct to DSD recordings.Classical music is less than 1% of the music market. Unless you have a significant number of popular titles, a revolution it does not make.
I posted numerous times before that if you listen mainly to classical and esoteric genres, you will have lots of DSD albums to play as long as you are willing to spend a lot of money.
Edits: 05/25/17
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The best part? Only available via internet stream from one streaming service, that has bled money.
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