MQA at CES

[Lighthouse]

I hope everyone should realize, at this point, that MQA is really a more sophisticated version of 16/44 Lossless embedded with Lossy Hi-Rez information.

 

 

Basically, it is lossless until 16/44(16/48), and it goes lossy to compress the rest of spectrum.

 

NO. MQA IS NOT TRUE LOSSLESS. Read their advertisements carefully, and you will find their 'lossless' claim is actually 'psychoacoustically lossless,' a very same conecpt which also describes mp3.

 

I believe this can be done by what we already have; how about just use FLAC and use Vorbis to compress the rest of spectrum? The file size would be slightly bigger but this still would give massive file size reduction like MQA does.

 

 

 

Now, to think about it, I believe it is only 2 or 3 years left for Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP) to hold patent status. It will expire soon. This tells us something.....

[Lighthouse]

What proprietary formats Apple has these days? They released source code for ALAC under liberal license (Apache):

Apple Lossless Audio Codec

 

Someone really has to maintain the code site itself. Last time I checked, it was literally buried with spam.

 

 

Proprietary formats are as strong as ever with HEVC/H.265 and pretty much all Dolby and DTS stuffs.