MQA is Vaporware

[Skirmash]

12 minutes ago, Fx Studio said:

 

OK so standards of evidence - so where is it debunking MQA then ?

This is clearly not a serious question.

There is a wealth of detailed material and great summaries addressing MQA's issues - some of them authored by the very people you are arguing with here. You simply have to decide you are motivated to learn, perform the necessary searches, and be open minded and digest it.

If you believe you can then refute it - all power to you! Come back and make your case. Just be aware that invested people who have lost millions over many years have failed to achieve what you are claiming to have achieved in the space of a handful of internet posts.

You will get no more responses out of me.

EDIT: As an FYI - if you do not understand the material that you find, then you could say so here and many of the people you are being so petulant with will probably still be willing to explain it to you. You just have to be cordial.

[Fx Studio]

1 minute ago, Skirmash said:

This is clearly not a serious question.

There is a wealth of detailed material and great summaries addressing MQA's issues - some of them authored by the very people you are arguing with here. You simply have to decide you are motivated to learn, perform the necessary searches, and be open minded and digest it.

If you believe you can then refute it - all power to you! Come back and make your case. Just be aware that invested people who have lost millions over many years have failed to achieve what you are claiming to have achieved in the space of a handful of internet posts.

You will get no more responses out of me.

 

So no real evidence then just group think/ chat here - OK got it.

 

 

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just now, Fx Studio said:

 

So no real evidence then just group think/ chat here - OK got it.

 

 

 

Question: Have you been banned from other sites, audio related or not?

[Confused]

38 minutes ago, Fx Studio said:

But the funny thing is people here can't me tell which track sounds better - and the one person who did picked MQA.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eh5gqnkmW8tcoI0u2O_EHl04FhIM1KAi/view

I liked the original mono version best.

[JoeWhip]

3 minutes ago, Fx Studio said:

 

So actually you have no real evidence except Golden Sounds highly flawed test.

 

 

I have heard demos on very expensive systems do not need your BS. Told me all I need to know but, maybe all the shots have destroyed my hearing? Oh wait, that was before Covid. Maybe the chemtrails, or the space lasers, or Illuminati or the Jesuits.

[Fx Studio]

Just now, The Computer Audiophile said:

Question: Have you been banned from other sites, audio related or not?

 

Nope, and I am a member of most of them - the best ones are the speaker builders.

 

 

[Fx Studio]

7 minutes ago, Confused said:

I liked the original mono version best.

 

It wouldn't mater if it was in mono or stereo it still can't match MQA on that sound system.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eh5gqnkmW8tcoI0u2O_EHl04FhIM1KAi/view

[Fx Studio]

3 minutes ago, JoeWhip said:

I have heard demos on very expensive systems do not need your BS. Told me all I need to know but, maybe all the shots have destroyed my hearing? Oh wait, that was before Covid. Maybe the chemtrails, or the space lasers, or Illuminati or the Jesuits.

 

Yep, that's exactly the mentality.

[manisandher]

7 minutes ago, Fx Studio said:

 

It wouldn't mater if it was in mono or stereo...

 

And the jokes keep coming!

[Fx Studio]

Just now, manisandher said:

 

And the jokes keep coming!

 

Its a fact not a joke.

[FredericV]

No need to buy a PA system: decent studio monitors in nearfield work.

MQA strips female voices from their raw quality:
 

Redbook better than MQA:
 

 

 

[Fx Studio]

3 minutes ago, FredericV said:

No need to buy a PA system: decent studio monitors in nearfield work.

MQA strips female voices from their raw quality:
 

Redbook better than MQA:
 

 

 

The equipment is completely inadequate.

For a start off course your not going to hear the Time Smearing Correction on near field speakers I already said that.

I have Adam A7X's monitors and they are not nearly powerful enough.

[church_mouse]

People, I think you are treating Fx Studio unfairly, and this is why:

When I tested MQA vs FLAC in the past, invariably I preferred the FLAC version but both versions were capable of producing a decent soundstage on my lowly equipment.

Fx Studio appears to have invested in a very expensive PA system which he believes makes MQA sound wonderful but, in his own words, where the FLAC "sound collapses around the speakers down to 2D".  

But wait...MQA is a dead technology. FLAC lives on. 

It seems to me that what we actually have here is a plea from a music listener on how to rescue a very expensive sound system which only sounds decent with a failed audio format. 

I am sure there are many of you on this site who have the goodness in heart to help out poor Fx Studio with a few tips!

[Fokus]

MQA is dead.

 

Given some time, its trolls will die, too.

 

Provided you don't feed them.

[manisandher]

11 minutes ago, Fx Studio said:

Its a fact not a joke.

 

Ordinarily I wouldn't bother, but I'm sitting in an airport waiting for my delayed flight. So, why not?

 

That a mono FLAC sounds different to a stereo MQA I will accept as a fact. That a stereo MQA has an "awesome 3D sound filling the studio" that the equivalent stereo FLAC doesn't is... well, as I said, a joke.

[firedog]

1 hour ago, Skirmash said:

With all due respect Fx, you are a pot calling the kettle black and I think it would be wise to take a step back and re-evaluate your perspective and approach.

You do not seem to appreciate that a number of the people you are arguing with have been instrumental in debunking MQA - and their evidence has stood up to (industry) scrutiny over time - to such a degree that neither the myopic supporters of MQA in the audio press or MQA themselves have ever been able to refute it. 

You have come into this thread making claims on the benefits of MQA which have already been disproven with unrefuted evidence, while presenting your own flawed evidence and personal experience as being compelling reason why you are right. No one here will deny your personal experience - it is yours. That said, your proclamations are not credible and you would do well to put aside your ego and critically think your way through the 'evidence' you are presenting.

Ash

Clearly he isn't capable. Ignore list. 

[charlesphoto]

Hoo boy, I think we found the Q in MQA with this FX guy.

 

"Just do the research..." lol. 

[Fx Studio]

1 minute ago, charlesphoto said:

Hoo boy, I think we found the Q in MQA with this FX guy.

 

"Just do the research..." lol. 

 

 "Safe and Effective"....  well certainly very EFFECTIVE.   LMAO

[FredericV]

16 minutes ago, Fx Studio said:

The equipment is completely inadequate.

For a start off course your not going to hear the Time Smearing Correction on near field speakers I already said that.

I have Adam A7X's monitors and they are not nearly powerful enough.

You are clearly a troll. You have zero credentials.

[John Dyson]

7 minutes ago, Fokus said:

MQA is dead.

 

Given some time, its trolls will die, too.

 

Provided you don't feed them.

I agree...

But..., I feel comforted when seeing the honest and competent pushback against MQA by the contributors in AS and elsewhere.    It is good that pro-MQA nonsense doesn't continuously erupt, but short eruptions once in a while are a good reminder about the MQA folly.

 

 

[Spike Kasperak]

I am not sure who is a bigger joke, this FX clown, or these reviewers, who still bring it upon themselves to mention MQA in every write up, despite the fact it of vast public knowledge MQA is a dead rotting corpse both from a business aspect and as a "format".

 

https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/technics-sl-g700m2-cd-sacd-player-and-streaming-dac/

 

https://www.stereophile.com/content/infigo-method-3-monoblock-power-amplifier

[JoeWhip]

Fx Studio is the Alex Jones of AS. And no, in case you were wondering Fx, that is not intended as a complement. Do your own research says every flat earther and conspiracy theorist everywhere. It is amazing, staggering really, that only he has the speakers that can decipher the deblurring. This is a new take on the old argument that your system is not resolving enough that has plagued audiophilia forever.

[Spike Kasperak]

Unless I missed, it seems MyTek has dumped MQA. Does not seem to be Trojan Horsed on to this product:

https://www.stereophile.com/content/mytek-digital-brooklyn-bridge-ii-roon-core-preamplifier

 

No apologies to customers, no mention of how MQA is no longer available. How humiliating. I would never spend a Euro with this company.

[MikeyFresh]

1 hour ago, Fx Studio said:

 

So actually you have no real evidence except Golden Sounds highly flawed test.

 

 

 

You've just proven that you haven't ever read any appreciable portion of this thread, nor actually researched anything at all, here or otherwise.

 

1 hour ago, JoeWhip said:

So, you come on here spouting nonsense and it up to folks here to debunk you? Ignore you is more appropriate. 

 

Exactly, complete nonsense earns a spot the ignored member list.

[JoeWhip]

Boy, that Infigo review! Holy Moly Batman and for the low low price of $55k.