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In Reply to: RE: As near as I can tell posted by E-Stat on February 05, 2017 at 17:24:15
There are 2 enfoldings that happen in MQA. The first is information from 24 to 96khz. The Tidal desktop player unfolds this information. The second folding is everything above 96KHZ. To unfold this you need a dac with MQA decoding. Even though this last folding is basically noise Bob Stuart says it does make an audible difference. I can't tell because the dac I have with MQA (Meridian xplorer2) is inferior to my non MQA dac (Audio-GD Master 7). The master 7 sounds better with MQA files than the Meridian.
Alan
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One must replace their DAC in order to hear oldies rock & roll at their best!
There may be NO advantage sound-wise that justifies encoding to higher sampling rates with older recordings.
it's not a question of "higher sample rates". Presumably, Meridian "recaptures" lost timing information in a revolutionary way. :)
or the original encoding system used by the record label?
That WOULD apply to recordings that are being re-masstered from analog tapes and then digitized, I suppose.
Even when they don't know the original ADC they have a general algorithm that takes the most common factors of the original recording equipment and still improves some timing issues
Alan
I think I correctly understand that one must have an MQA enabled DAC in order to experience the full deal.
And I'm not ready to buy another DAC for a piddling amount of content, little of which I listen to.
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