Testing Tidal MQA “masters” on HD800s / Fiio k9pro MQA dac/amp

[SKBubba]

OP should start a Youtube channel.

 

[voodooless]

It was a few years ago, so I can't be sure, but I think I ran the tracks through Audition and they all came up with virtually identical loudness levels. Unfortunately 2L are reorganising their website and the testbench page is down right now, I hope they'll put it up again since it was quite useful.

Ah, so you only did a visual comparison and looks at a few loudness values. I would not expect to see a lot there indeed.

You'd have to do a proper null test to really find out how big the differences are, core decoded MQA vs the same (resulting) sample rate original.

 

[Jimbob54]

I think Elon has taught the world recently with the cleanup of Twitter that people should be allowed to express themselves and have fun

He is making some kind of example. None of it relates to uncontrolled subjective assessment of audio formats though.

 

[voodooless]

He is making some kind of example. None of it relates to uncontrolled subjective assessment of audio formats though.

It does relate to making fun of people and calling them out though Seems he's quite adept at doing that, for better or worse...

 

[MaxwellsEq]

I was mocking the wrong reasoning of the OP. Your answer should be addressed to the OP, not to me.

Sorry! Post deleted.

 

[sq225917]

Restricting freedom of speech is probably not the best way to conduct this forum.

I'm not trying to restrict your freedom of speech, I'm just pointing out that no one cares about opinions on this site, yours, mine or anyone else's.

So making a long post about what you think you hear is pointless, no one cares. You've come to the wrong site to take about what you think you hear.

If you have a nice little AB test to tell us about we're all ears.

 

[AdamG]

Sorry but we don’t do MQA debates here. It’s an endless nonsensical discussion about how it sounds versus what it might or might not be doing. It always ends poorly and creates division and hostility between ASR members. So yeah. I think we’re done here….

P.S.: Full disclosure I listen to Tidal and have no issues with how MQA sounds. I also have years of accumulated hearing loss.