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MQA: A Review of controversies, concerns, and cautions
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watchnerd
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In the age of broadband video streaming and 4G phones, it doesn't solve anything.
When the internet was slower, MQA solved a problem. Now it's not needed.
Being a Late Adopter myself, I don't see MQA providing me any benefits or causing any problems for at least fifteen years, at which time I'll be 80, and not worried about anything.
Maybe you missed this link the first time around,
The game is afoot.
You just need to be paying closer attention.
https://www.onkyomusic.com/US/mqa-new-arrivals
A handful of titles means nothing. What does is this:Maybe you missed this link the first time around,
The game is afoot.
You just need to be paying closer attention.
https://www.onkyomusic.com/US/mqa-new-arrivals
See, they still provide the straight Flac file. So no take over....
Of course MQA will fail. I never doubted that.
The point is that between its birth and its demise it will have caused unnecessary confusion and will have done unnecessary damage.
I remember thinking youtube was a stupid idea and it would fold.
Let me trump that
"What's this www silliness? FTP with a GUI??? No-one will use that."
Me, 1993
I agree that it was an effective fix. I was alluding to it being a licenced add-on to mfrs products.
Let me try at this game :
"Can't see how Facebook will ever make money! They'll fall flat on their face (pun intended)" Me, May 2012 ...
So I am taking my prediction of MQA-fail with a truckload of salt! When it happens (Mark my words
), it wouldn't be because of my prodigious analytical skills 
restorer-john
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MQA may well take off, but if it does, all our uncompressed LPCM on CDs will become valuable for the next generation of Hipsters.
Honestly, I don't care one bit (haha pun intended). What's to stop anyone taking a MQA 'certified' analogue output and digitizing it at any sample rate they like, therefore creating non-watermarked, non MQA high res files of their own?
My concern is the folded back, non-harmonically related garbage it puts into the audible bandwidth. I want to see some actual tests using pure tones on an FFT- it won't be pretty...
Honestly, I don't care one bit (haha pun intended). What's to stop anyone taking a MQA 'certified' analogue output and digitizing it at any sample rate they like, therefore creating non-watermarked, non MQA high res files of their own?
My concern is the folded back, non-harmonically related garbage it puts into the audible bandwidth. I want to see some actual tests using pure tones on an FFT- it won't be pretty...
You may have missed my earlier posts: if all new player hardware has MQA technology in it (why not?), this can be set up to act as a gatekeeper to prevent replay of anything that is not watermarked in the right way.
These debates were had 10-15 years ago, and legislation was even proposed:
As far as I can tell, the music industry basically gave up on the whole idea at that time due to the practical difficulties. A difference today is that everything is becoming connected, so many of the problems in implementing such a system go away. Whether or not it is MQA, I don't see why this idea couldn't come round again. The offensive thing about MQA is that it changes the file contents - a bit like the watermarks that were proposed back in 2005.
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Another nail in MQA's coffin?
http://archimago.blogspot.fr/2018/04/musings-on-drm-mqa-supposed-techno.html
http://archimago.blogspot.fr/2018/04/musings-on-drm-mqa-supposed-techno.html
One worries about what they will try next, once MQA is dead.
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PIRACY IS A CRIME!
Or: Why the industry tried to make us love DRM.
Underlying support for DRM is the industry’s claim that «piracy is not a victimless crime», etc.
Before watching a film you are warned that the Feds will come and take you if you share the content of the film disc.
We have become so used to this propaganda that we stoppes asking the right questions.
Last year, an EU report from 2014 on piracy was made public after a leak. EU tried to keep the report away from the public. Why?
Well, the report paints a nuanced picture of piracy. In some cases (games) piracy had a benign effect on sales. For music, there was no evidence of neither lower nor higher sales.
Here’s the report:
https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf
This is a science oriented site. So if we lean towards evidence, not dogma, we should be very skeptical against the industry’s piracy claims and DRM as a universal tool for increasing society’s economic surplus in cases that have to do with intellectual property.
Or: Why the industry tried to make us love DRM.
Underlying support for DRM is the industry’s claim that «piracy is not a victimless crime», etc.
Before watching a film you are warned that the Feds will come and take you if you share the content of the film disc.
We have become so used to this propaganda that we stoppes asking the right questions.
Last year, an EU report from 2014 on piracy was made public after a leak. EU tried to keep the report away from the public. Why?
Well, the report paints a nuanced picture of piracy. In some cases (games) piracy had a benign effect on sales. For music, there was no evidence of neither lower nor higher sales.
Here’s the report:
https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf
This is a science oriented site. So if we lean towards evidence, not dogma, we should be very skeptical against the industry’s piracy claims and DRM as a universal tool for increasing society’s economic surplus in cases that have to do with intellectual property.
IIf you think IP piracy is OK then get lots of duplicates made of your house and car keys, attach your address to them and freely hand them out to the public.
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If it becomes ubiquitous, it means the consumer has spoken and wants it. In that case, that is it and we better not complain.
Fortunately the reality is different. Replacing CD streaming with MQA is simply not in the cards for reasons I mentioned. MQA has put itself in the encoding path which hugely limits how much content can be made available. It would take tens of millions of dollars to encode any significant library of content to compete with CD. And for what? The real music market has no need or care for something called MQA or high-resolution.
Let's also remember that MQA is absent from download market right now. That market continues to be served with digital PCM and DSD downloads.
@amirm , you wrote:
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If it becomes ubiquitous, it means the consumer has spoken and wants it. In that case, that is it and we better not complain.
Fortunately the reality is different. Replacing CD streaming with MQA is simply not in the cards for reasons I mentioned. MQA has put itself in the encoding path which hugely limits how much content can be made available. It would take tens of millions of dollars to encode any significant library of content to compete with CD. And for what? The real music market has no need or care for something called MQA or high-resolution.
Let's also remember that MQA is absent from download market right now. That market continues to be served with digital PCM and DSD downloads.
@amirm , you wrote:
«If it becomes ubiquitous, it means the consumer has spoken and wants it. In that case, that is it and we better not complain».
Why is it that you conclude that a product which is everywhere is because «the consumer has spoken and wants it»?
Can you support that claim with evidence, science? What sort of science supports that claim?
«Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back»
John Maynard Keynes
Believing in the sacralized workings of the market is a bit naive, isn’t it? Wouldn’t a better description of the market process (in many practical cases) be that of certain interests wielding their power?
Quoting Keynes? Incredible. Economics masquerades as science. No specific predictability due to manipulated inputs and unreal outcome expectations.
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If you think IP piracy is OK then get lots of duplicates made of your house and car keys, attach your address to them and freely hand them out to the public.
Where did I say «IP piracy is OK»?
I quoted a report which found piracy to have nuanced effects, a report that the EU wanted to withhold from public eye.
Stop making straw men and start discussing the subject matter, please.
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