Hey, I'm cool...
Unless my pre-release-pre-ordered Hiromi comes MQA'd in a few days.
Then I'll reconsider.
It arrived today...
No mention of MQA on the cover.
Hey, I'm cool...
Unless my pre-release-pre-ordered Hiromi comes MQA'd in a few days.
Then I'll reconsider.
Just to mention that the name 'Audio Origami' has been in use by an actual manufacturer and repair specialist (Johnnie 7) for a few years, specialising in tonearms and associated accessories. The arms are often based on older ones such as the Syrinx PU3 and are highly thought of by some. <http://www.audioorigami.co.uk>
Oh dear, oh dear...Well, that was a savage pun indeed.
The are many people that decided to move to Tidal and the other high res streaming platforms; I'm one of them that came from Spotify.
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Many is a relative term. From what I've seen of the subscriber figures it simply isn't true, unless many for you means only "more than three". When you take into account that the numbers of paid full on streaming subscribers in the US alone is well past 60 million, the number subscribing to CD quality and higher streams is tiny. As I noted, the total number of "hifi' subscribers at Tidal is in the low hundreds of thousands, from what's been reported. That's a very small part of their (not very large) base. It's a blip on the radar in the big picture.
Qobuz has a total number of subscribers less that 300,000 worldwide, from what was recently published. If you live in the audiophile world, you think Tidal and Qobuz are important. In the big world they aren't. Shoot, when Amazon HD was announced there were a lot of press articles talking about CD quality/hires streaming, and Qobuz' existence didn't even get mentioned in many of them (Tidal did get mentioned because it's owned by Jay-Z). When you see charts published of the streaming world market share, those two are barely visible, if at all, and often aren't even mentioned in write ups as players in the space.
Amazon likes to dominate markets, and is willing to lose money for a long time to do so. They also like to continually give reasons for people to join and stay joined to Amazon Prime, so apparently they see some long term/synergistic reasons to have the HD platform.
If Spotify saw Tidal and Qobuz as a serious threat, don't you think they'd have rolled out CD quality or hi-res before this? Their apps/UI are much better than both of those competitors, and support for Spotify is ubiquitous on all sorts of HW/SW; if they had a CD or hi-res stream I bet lots of audiophiles would jump over to them in a flash.
It's possible Amazon HD will change all that, but till now Spotify, Apple, and Google haven't seen any business reasons to get involved with either CD quality or hi-res. It just hasn't been seen as commercially worthwhile. In the big world there's little interest.
I predict that Amazon will buy at least one of the less cashed-up players to get instant market penetration. Isn't this the internet way?
Tidal had a big buy in from Sprint in 2017 of $200 million for 33% of the company, which gives them (at the time) a market value of $600 million and lots of cash. Sprint obviously has reasons other than Tidal's bottom line profit to have a tie in to Jay-Z and streaming.
Would someone else pay that amount for the company?
The streaming services generate lots of income, but aren't actually profitable as stand alone entities. They are supporting the record labels (who also are often part owners) quite well, however. Like many internet based businesses, their long term viability is questionable in their present economic model. They may be viable as user based data producers and as feeders of subscribers to bigger packages of services by the likes of Amazon, Google, and Apple.
https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/...s-to-16-bits-and-the-blue-light-still-shines/
An interesting thread about the MQA blue light.
Mansr in this post of that thread explains a bit about what turns on the blue light.
https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/...t-still-shines/?do=findComment&comment=784981
So the customer looking at his DAC display believes this is 24 bit 352.8 Khz, while the actual resolution is something like 17 bits and 88.2 Khz, upsampled with minimum phase and one cycle of postringing to the original resolution. It's misleading, but this is how MQA displays it.
https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/...s-to-16-bits-and-the-blue-light-still-shines/
An interesting thread about the MQA blue light.
Mansr in this post of that thread explains a bit about what turns on the blue light.
https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/...t-still-shines/?do=findComment&comment=784981
Many is a relative term. From what I've seen of the subscriber figures it simply isn't true, unless many for you means only "more than three". When you take into account that the numbers of paid full on streaming subscribers in the US alone is well past 60 million, the number subscribing to CD quality and higher streams is tiny. As I noted, the total number of "hifi' subscribers at Tidal is in the low hundreds of thousands, from what's been reported. That's a very small part of their (not very large) base. It's a blip on the radar in the big picture.
Qobuz has a total number of subscribers less that 300,000 worldwide, from what was recently published. If you live in the audiophile world, you think Tidal and Qobuz are important. In the big world they aren't. Shoot, when Amazon HD was announced there were a lot of press articles talking about CD quality/hires streaming, and Qobuz' existence didn't even get mentioned in many of them (Tidal did get mentioned because it's owned by Jay-Z). When you see charts published of the streaming world market share, those two are barely visible, if at all, and often aren't even mentioned in write ups as players in the space.
Amazon likes to dominate markets, and is willing to lose money for a long time to do so. They also like to continually give reasons for people to join and stay joined to Amazon Prime, so apparently they see some long term/synergistic reasons to have the HD platform.
If Spotify saw Tidal and Qobuz as a serious threat, don't you think they'd have rolled out CD quality or hi-res before this? Their apps/UI are much better than both of those competitors, and support for Spotify is ubiquitous on all sorts of HW/SW; if they had a CD or hi-res stream I bet lots of audiophiles would jump over to them in a flash.
It's possible Amazon HD will change all that, but till now Spotify, Apple, and Google haven't seen any business reasons to get involved with either CD quality or hi-res. It just hasn't been seen as commercially worthwhile. In the big world there's little interest.
$600 million is pocket-money for Amazon.
There may be some sore feeling members...Well, that was a savage pun indeed.
Without speaking to your blurbs, I'm referring to people that are interested in high res audio. Looking across multiple audio forums, YouTube channels etc. Tidal and Qobuz come up a lot (much more than Spotify or the other services), so there's definitely an interest in high quality audio in that segment of the market that's interested it.
PS Audio should sue for infringement their Noise Harvester converts noise to blue light:
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https://www.amazon.com/PS-Audio-U-HARV-BLK-Noise-Harvester/dp/B003081XBE
They may make some decent product, but I cannot take this company seriously.
If they made a balanced version...
- Rich
Shenzhen audio sent me a none mqa track does similarhttps://audiophilestyle.com/forums/...s-to-16-bits-and-the-blue-light-still-shines/
An interesting thread about the MQA blue light.
Mansr in this post of that thread explains a bit about what turns on the blue light.
https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/...t-still-shines/?do=findComment&comment=784981
The problem is, a lot of company people making high dollar decisions just aren't thinking straight. And subordinates are too afraid to say anything.Irrelevant.
No company spends $600 million thinking they are throwing their money away.