More blind appeals to authority (first Bob Stuart, now Rob Harley), rather than fact-based arguments, by Amir with regards to MQA.
Bob Stuart is an authority. Don't confuse reality with high-school debating logic. You best download his peer-reviewed papers and read and learn from them.
Robert Harley is also an authority on who high-end audiophiles are. Much more so than Archimago.
If you want to complain about appeal to authority, that is what I saw in posts defending Archimago. You are giving folks a pass on that. I am not.
People need to stick to what they know. That's all. If you don't know audiophiles and their music purchasing habits, then don't comment on them. If you do, then you see me correcting you.
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facts I have presented are reality of the marketplace. People said MQA is going to take over the world so we should be scared and fight it to death. I said no way major companies like Amazon will adopt it and pay a cent to likes of MQA. My prediction came 100% true. If Tidal goes out of business, then MQA will die with it and so will all the dire predictions people are making against MQA. And what will kill Tidal would be competition from Amazon (and to some extent Qobuz), not any scare tactics regarding MQA.