I realize this thread, and perhaps just MQA, is enough to drive most of us to drink, but do you have to make it so obvious?
Not sure if it's all the junk on site lately, or just Amir, driving you bonkers...
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MQA: A Review of controversies, concerns, and cautions
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I realize this thread, and perhaps just MQA, is enough to drive most of us to drink, but do you have to make it so obvious?
Not sure if it's all the junk on site lately, or just Amir, driving you bonkers...
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I miss that light. Now instead I have to upsample everything just so the M500 shows the hi res logo instead so I can go to sleep happy. Maybe that's why I'm awake now, no soothing blue light.
No I'm sober and off to work soon , well I guess to a point that's even worse news Don ha haI realize this thread, and perhaps just MQA, is enough to drive most of us to drink, but do you have to make it so obvious?
Not sure if it's all the junk on site lately, or just Amir, driving you bonkers...
Signal to noise ratio is bad , but like vinyl records the place can still be enjoyable if one sees past imperfections. With this communication medium and all these random humans with diverging motivations and values it's a wonder any of it works towards a meaningful and constructive end .
watchnerd
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Might as well just listen to 320 kbps at that point....
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Yup. That was when I realised it was all a bit of a mess.
Thomas, what the hell are you talking about? LOL
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Blue light=nasty cheap trash! Hardly a reassuring sign of quality lmao!
(Perhaps only to certain generations in the U.S., including mine. I hated that place, it was even worse than Sears. At least Sears had decent handtools.
LOL)
(Perhaps only to certain generations in the U.S., including mine. I hated that place, it was even worse than Sears. At least Sears had decent handtools.
LOL)
watchnerd
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K Mart?
restorer-john
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Blue light = Police. You've done something wrong.
Red light = Stop, it's a brothel.
Green light = Go. All good.
Amber light = Floor it, before it goes red.
Personally, I like red LEDs on gear for standby, or fault protection and green LEDs for on. Much as the blue LED has revolutionized the entire world in real terms, it just looks tacky and horrid on HiFi gear.
I don't think I have any proper HiFi with a blue power or indicator LED on it apart from cheap Chinese things. The only bright blue power light I remember was an incandescent on Marantz amplifiers in the early 1970s. (my father's 1060). Plenty of backlit blue meters and dials in the 1970s however.
The perfectly symmetrical Marantz 1060. In my mind, one of the prettiest amplifiers ever built:
Red light = Stop, it's a brothel.
Green light = Go. All good.
Amber light = Floor it, before it goes red.
Personally, I like red LEDs on gear for standby, or fault protection and green LEDs for on. Much as the blue LED has revolutionized the entire world in real terms, it just looks tacky and horrid on HiFi gear.
I don't think I have any proper HiFi with a blue power or indicator LED on it apart from cheap Chinese things. The only bright blue power light I remember was an incandescent on Marantz amplifiers in the early 1970s. (my father's 1060). Plenty of backlit blue meters and dials in the 1970s however.
The perfectly symmetrical Marantz 1060. In my mind, one of the prettiest amplifiers ever built:
My Kell amps had blue lights I think .
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restorer-john
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Gotta love the Marantz 2270/2275.
One of the favourites in my collection is the 1152DC. By 1978, they had gone to a red LED for power. (I guess I could change it to blindingly bright blue...)
(internet pic)
One of the favourites in my collection is the 1152DC. By 1978, they had gone to a red LED for power. (I guess I could change it to blindingly bright blue...)
(internet pic)
watchnerd
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What hole does the MQA go in?
2270 was a real beauty. I bought one with my first wedding present money. It was my first solid state high end component.
She took it in the divorce.
True story LOL
restorer-john
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If I had a 2270 left in my collection, I'd send it to you Sal. Absolutely beautiful receiver. Not over the top, but pretty much perfect in terms of facilities and performance for early/mid 1970s. Solid as a rock.
The last classic Marantz receiver I let go was a mint 2275. She was real purty and I sent her to another collector in WA (Western Australia, not Washington state..).
Thanks John, appreciate the thought.
Richard would loose. If something is patented and you write an open-source version of it and put in the public, in no way you are eliminating the need for a patent license. If this were not the case, it would be so easy to bypass every patent in the world.I have developed open source software for 40 years. Open source is about a lot of things. I would love to see you try to debate your point with Richard Stallman.
watchnerd
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What is the patented "it" in this case?
Because the hypothesis upthread (post #1,446) wasn't about making an open source version of a patented thing, such as MQA.
It was simply saying that new codecs don't, necessarily, have to be patented / licensed by Dolby, DTS, Meridian, etc.
It's possible to implement new codecs in open source, as has been done before.
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