In Reply to: Re: MQA...........Bob Ludwig sure likes it. posted by Isaak J. Garvey on May 29, 2017 at 11:18:22:
Hopefully you aren't insinuating Ludwig gets kickbacks or has tin ears. AFAIK if he's very wealthy its due to artists/producers feeling the quality of his mastering is worth whatever he charges. I'd be interested to know what other excellent mastering engineers like Greg Calbi, Doug Sax, Bernie Grundman think about MQA.I don't like the proprietary aspects of MQA, wouldn't even consider replacing software I already own with new MQA versions, and its highly unlikely I'd buy new hardware necessary for playback of MQA. I'm a semi-geezer and have over 2,000 LP's (after several culls) and somewhere around 600 cd's. I'm not even into downloading, and at this point only purchase new recordings I feel have something different/unique to say or old ones I enjoy that for whatever reason I didn't get when they were released. I'm skeptical about MQA and reading Charles Hansen's posts below makes me even more skeptical.
But none of the above would prevent me from listening to MQA with open ears/mind.
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- Dunno. I haven't read Ludwig's views regarding the formats you mentioned. - Rick W 12:14:27 05/29/17 (53)
- Not that simple - Ross 15:16:06 05/31/17 (6)
- "Wealthy" keeps coming up. Do you have his Bank Records? - oldmkvi 09:31:11 06/02/17 (0)
- Are you accusing Ludwig of being disingenuous? - Rick W 12:45:05 06/01/17 (3)
- Buuuuuuuut, - oldmkvi 09:34:12 06/02/17 (2)
- "Knowledgeable, Experienced, and Good at what they do!" Paid well for being competent, great business model~nT - Cleantimestream 13:31:18 06/03/17 (1)
- Twist it any way you want, you're not doing it. - oldmkvi 23:55:54 06/03/17 (0)
- RE: Not that simple - Isaak J. Garvey 15:39:19 05/31/17 (0)
- RE: Dunno. I haven't read Ludwig's views regarding the formats you mentioned. - ahendler 18:21:02 05/29/17 (27)
- Comment on Ludwig's opinion? nt - Rick W 18:47:03 05/29/17 (26)
- RE: Comment on Ludwig's opinion? nt - ahendler 08:57:23 06/06/17 (25)
- RE: Comment on Ludwig's opinion? nt - Isaak J. Garvey 10:27:06 06/06/17 (0)
- Thanks. Increases my curiousity about MQA. But what nobody mentions is....... - Rick W 09:39:24 06/06/17 (23)
- RE: Thanks. Increases my curiousity about MQA. But what nobody mentions is....... - Isaak J. Garvey 10:29:40 06/06/17 (22)
- Likely an ignorant comment by me. - Rick W 11:24:08 06/06/17 (21)
- RE: Likely an ignorant comment by me. - Isaak J. Garvey 13:24:35 06/06/17 (2)
- I have all those older titles on vinyl. - Rick W 14:22:37 06/06/17 (1)
- RE: I have all those older titles on vinyl. - Isaak J. Garvey 14:41:12 06/06/17 (0)
- RE: Likely an ignorant comment by me. - Charles Hansen 12:57:55 06/06/17 (17)
- RE: Likely an ignorant comment by me. - Isaak J. Garvey 13:20:21 06/06/17 (16)
- Sorry, wrong nomenclature - Charles Hansen 22:19:11 06/06/17 (13)
- RE: Sorry, wrong nomenclature - Isaak J. Garvey 10:25:49 06/07/17 (11)
- It appears that MQA has managed to mislead the Sound on Sound author - Charles Hansen 12:58:19 06/07/17 (10)
- RE: It appears that MQA has managed to mislead the Sound on Sound author - Isaak J. Garvey 13:58:04 06/07/17 (9)
- Fair Enough - Charles Hansen 16:03:33 06/07/17 (8)
- one "reviewer" - DAP 16:00:05 06/08/17 (5)
- RE: one "reviewer" - Isaak J. Garvey 17:48:47 06/08/17 (4)
- RE: one "reviewer" - SpotcheckBilly12345 07:31:39 06/09/17 (2)
- RE: one "reviewer" - Isaak J. Garvey 12:03:23 06/09/17 (0)
- That's a little extreme :-) - DAP 08:27:32 06/09/17 (0)
- socks off - DAP 19:59:12 06/08/17 (0)
- RE: Fair Enough - Isaak J. Garvey 17:04:41 06/07/17 (1)
- I do not agree with the author's conclusions - Charles Hansen 19:24:26 06/07/17 (0)
- RE: Sorry, wrong nomenclature - Isaak J. Garvey 10:13:51 06/07/17 (0)
- RE: Likely an ignorant comment by me. - ahendler 14:13:41 06/06/17 (1)
- RE: Likely an ignorant comment by me. - Isaak J. Garvey 14:34:26 06/06/17 (0)
- RE: Dunno. I haven't read Ludwig's views regarding the formats you mentioned. - PAR 16:27:28 05/29/17 (1)
- Wow, obviously forgot it'd take a seance. Thanks. nt - Rick W 16:39:07 05/29/17 (0)
- RE: Dunno. I haven't read Ludwig's views regarding the formats you mentioned. - Isaak J. Garvey 13:24:23 05/29/17 (15)
- What's wrong with SACD, DVD-A or Surround Sound? nt - oldmkvi 02:07:07 05/30/17 (14)
- RE: What's wrong with SACD, DVD-A or Surround Sound? nt - Isaak J. Garvey 07:26:56 05/30/17 (13)
- And people here give a flying... - Ivan303 09:04:02 05/30/17 (12)
- Because - Ross 15:03:40 05/31/17 (5)
- So all of these independent classical record labels... - Ivan303 10:01:00 06/01/17 (4)
- Last time I checked - E-Stat 12:18:29 06/01/17 (3)
- OK... - Ivan303 15:31:54 06/01/17 (2)
- You've got lots of SOs in there :) - E-Stat 16:18:33 06/01/17 (1)
- Naxos... - Ivan303 18:43:43 06/01/17 (0)
- Easy - kentaja 09:52:15 05/30/17 (5)
- RE: Easy - Isaak J. Garvey 10:45:51 05/30/17 (0)
- RE: "A few thousand titles is not much to choose from - Ivan303 10:33:53 05/30/17 (3)
- RE: "A few thousand titles is not much to choose from - kentaja 11:45:53 05/30/17 (2)
- How long ago did SACD die? - Ivan303 17:25:00 05/30/17 (1)
- RE: How long ago did SACD die? - kentaja 06:50:29 05/31/17 (0)