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RE: Absolute Sound on MQA..jaws drop

>Wow! SECONDS into the music he determined MQA's "dramatic superiority"!!!!!!
>And it gets better...BEFORE the music even began, the hall sounded "larger"!!!!

Robert Harley can defend himself, but for what it's worth I had a similar
reaction. One of the files played was the first movement from a Mahler 5
performed by the New World Symphony. I know this hi-rez recording very
well, Peter McGrath having given me a copy a while back. At CES, the
original file sounded pretty much as I remember from my own system; by
contrast, the sound of the hall before the first note was played with the
MQA version was indeed more coherent, more enveloping. And when the
solo trumpet started playing, there was less ambiguity about the position
of its image within the hall acoustic.

As I said in another posting, Bob Stuart has prepared MQA versions of
some of my own hi-rez recordings and I will be comparing those with
the originals under familiar circumstances. To find out what I thought
of the difference, you will have to purchase a copy of the magazine, of
course :-)

John Atkinson
Technical Editor, Stereophile

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