MQA was the answer to a problem that was already solved, file size for streaming.
Wasn't the problem that MQA was trying to solve the disappearing MLP licensing revenue for Meridian? DRM was the means to get the buy-in from the record industry...
MQA was the answer to a problem that was already solved, file size for streaming.
Maybe it's simplistic thinking but, if it sounds different than the what the engineer/producer,artist created at the mixing board how can it be better?The sounds better bit is pretty rich when noisy/complex audio(1200Kbps flac) can break them very easily since there no real psychoacoustic model being used.
With 4 kids all playing computer games, YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, homework we are constantly hitting our limit for data each month and we live in an area that has no other high speed internet options so streaming MQA does in fact help me get better sound without resorting to flac or lossless hi res. I absolutely hate our internet provider because of their throttling.
Kind of like buying a high res download of a 1960s analog recording. The big numbers make you feel better.I am playing a mind trick by ripping everything in FLAC, intellectually I know 320K MP3 is so close as to be indistinguishable for regular listening but just knowing a track is lossless fools me into thinking it must be better.
Yep exactly. I see no issue in listening to Spotify 320 streams, sound just fine to me.I do not see any reason not to use only lossless.
I am playing a mind trick by ripping everything in FLAC, intellectually I know 320K MP3 is so close as to be indistinguishable for regular listening but just knowing a track is lossless fools me into thinking it must be better.
Kind of like buying a high res download of a 1960s analog recording. The big numbers make you feel better.
1,411,200 bits per second (audio only bitrate for CD) is a big enough number for me...
And given the cheapness of storage and broadband / wifi bandwidth speed, it's almost a waste to not utilize it by just going lossless all the time.
Your local bandwidth may seem cheap to you, but wasting bandwidth causes a lot of load on the backbone networks and servers - that costs not only money, but a lot of power/energy too.
What qualifies as wasting bandwidth?
Ever since i switched to Flac wither on my PC or portable. I never understood the arguments by pro lossy users and even HA forums. Since they get super rude when lossy can't cover all music without issues even Opus still groans on some content.
Yeah 90% of the activity is them abusing TOS#8 when people pour in showing how easy they can break. To me AAC/Vorbis aren't even transparent at 256kbps with industrial music/experimental and metal music.
Transmitting useless bits (as in random ultrasonic noise) or using a very inefficient encoding are two applicable examples I can think of.