Critic's Corner

Posted by Krav Maga (A) on November 11, 2017 at 20:43:10

In Reply to: RE: greatly improved time domain accuracy and reduced temporal blur posted by Bruce from DC on November 11, 2017 at 19:59:11

Per Robert Harley's article in TAS "Beyond High-Resolution
An Inside Look at Meridian's Master Quality Authenticated (MQA)":

"Temporal blur affects the sounds' timing precision. That is, music's transient's energy is spread out, appearing before and after the transient. Meridian has previously addressed this problem of filter "ringing" with its "apodizing" filter, a technique now commonly used. The apodizing filter doesn't remove ringing (temporal blur); rather, it kills the incoming ringing and replaces it with its own ringing that occurs only after the transient, which is less sonically detrimental. MQA's new techniques outright remove temporal blur rather than making it less sonically objectionable."

Read more of the explanation at linked article:

• TAS article   (Open in New Window)