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MQA more answers, maybe too many for some people.

NorthSky

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Sorry, but Hans' videos are mis-informational videos as is audiophile typical. One more time, out of the millions so far, the pre-echo is occurring at frequencies in the transition band only. Frequencies we cannot hear. If one has any concern whatsoever, then 88 or 96 khz rates will make them a total non-issue. Plus, that little single impulse response is actually an illegal signal. That signal actually is invalid in conformance with the Nyquist theorem. Filters in the ADC stage would not allow such a signal to occur digitally in the first place. Remember Nyquist is about adc/dac. Not one or the other. You can create such artificial signals and test some aspects of the gear that way. The idea midrange musical transients are ringing thru your DAC is a fantasy. This garbage just won't die, not as long as it is easy to picture in the audiophile mind and sells gear.

Proper publications that cared about the readers rather than being cheerleaders or shills for advertisers would have regular articles explaining all this. No reason Hans couldn't have gotten the real info and done a video explaining this. Instead he is promoting what a company wants him to promote. Even though the Dave likely sounds wonderful and does have some high quality filtering, the reason given for it being wonderful is not correct.

Also in the video is the old BS that for 1 microsecond timing accuracy you need 1 mhz sample rates. Really full of pitiful old crap is this video.

Thank you sir for that. ...Denis.
 
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