Can anyone tell me what problem MQA is the solution for?
Is there an MQA encoder?
Can anyone tell me what problem MQA is the solution for?
Can anyone tell me what problem MQA is the solution for?
I see MQA as a new offering with tiny amount of success. It has not impacted my life one bit with respect to my consumption of other formats. Precisely because they charge a licensing fee, it means that it will NOT have widespread usage and as such, it cannot and will not replace current offers of high-resolution and lossless CD formats. Trying to develop warring camps based on thin amount of technical knowledge is not going to amount to a useful use of our time.
My biggest complaint, of many about MQA, is MQA interferes with using DSP for playback. Room correction and such aren't possible unless one is willing to convert from MQA to analog and convert back to digital and back to analog after the DSP.
So you remove the right to access a lossless stream, first at less than CD quality in a undecoded MQA, And also debatedly even after decoding.In the not too distant future, all music consumed will be deployed by only a handful.
Remember you have my Explorer 2 to play with and listen to some MQA from Roon/TidalThe only MQA content I have is music which doesn't lend itself to resolution testing without statistical analysis. I will test my AudioQuest Dragonfly Black but not sure how conclusive that is without MQA content.
No, Meridian have gone out of their way to stop this kind of comparison from happening.How are MQA files created? Is there an MQA encoder? If so, we could encode any test signal we want.
A partially valid argument is that reduced data rate will reduce streaming costs to people like Tidal. That is the one and only reason and thats pretty tenuous IMO. The sound quality arguments dont make sense IMO. Great, you have corrected the original A to D impulse response. Now what about how your speakers at home totally mangle it?Can anyone tell me what problem MQA is the solution for?
I'm not sure of the validity of the claims, but I've read a number of times that the de-blurring process could be separated out of the folding-data reduction and marketed alone as a SQ "upgrade". All well and good, if possible market it to audiophiles that believe it to be an improvement. But the SQ line is just a marketing ploy, an excuse to get the believers to jump on board, all the while ignoring the fact that locking down distribution of open sourced data streams is the real end game.Great, you have corrected the original A to D impulse response
I'm not sure of the validity of the claims, but I've read a number of times that the de-blurring process could be separated out of the folding-data reduction and marketed alone as a SQ "upgrade". All well and good, if possible market it to audiophiles that believe it to be an improvement. But the SQ line is just a marketing ploy, an excuse to get the believers to jump on board, all the while ignoring the fact that locking down distribution of open sourced data streams is the real end game.
Does anyone here understand if de-blurring could be an offered separate process?
Not sure. Steve Jobs was adamant that mp4 at their chosen compression was indistinguishable from CD so refused "high res" downloads as pointless.MQA seems like a ideal fit for Apple , I can’t belive they have not bought it hook line and sinker and gone about taking over the music world with it.
No, Meridian have gone out of their way to stop this kind of comparison from happening.
What's blurred?...
I think that people are still naively believing that this is 'a thing' and asking questions about it as though it really exists. It doesn't actually exist: it is a placebo; a cult; a talisman; a symbolic crutch to help the audiophile get into the right state of mind for listening.Not only that, they haven't even provided to the public "before and after" samples of music for you to compare.
At a recent MQA demo by one of their salesmen, I was told that he had no examples to demonstrate, and even that it wasn't possible! Huh?
Supposedly all your music is terribly blurry.