MQA is Vaporware

[stefano_mbp]

14 hours ago, KeenObserver said:

I didn't know that NAD was still in business.

BluOS  … NAD and Bluesound 

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2 hours ago, yamamoto2002 said:

Some higher frequency part of the music will be lost forever at some point of time

Don’t worry, MQA encoded files are only encoded copies of the original not encoded files and nothing will be lost … 

[stefano_mbp]

MQA is just a useless addition of technical "complications" that no one felt the need for: dacs that are just renderers, dacs full decoders, only via usb or also via coax, passthrough, players and streamers that do the first unfolding, players and streamers who do passthrough ...
The "complications" are interesting, and valuable, in watches like IWC but certainly not in HiFi.

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@Iving … ... too much honour, a mass grave would already be too much … 😉

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My question is : why there is no magazine commenting MQA agony? Especially Stereophile and TAS … do we must thing they are all contracted (mercenary)?

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2 minutes ago, FredericV said:

MQA kernel in Mytek ADC never happened ....

… but this is from their own site … legacy products

 

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7 minutes ago, Fx Studio said:

 

So which do you think is the better sounding of the two then ??

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

 

… but where is the point? MQA is dead, cold and almost buried … 

[stefano_mbp]

28 minutes ago, Fx Studio said:

ALL formats are lossy including FLAC because of the lack of time smearing correction.

Are you smoking something good?

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15 minutes ago, Fokus said:

If I rememember correctly

You don’t…

MQA Full decoding means the ability to perform all three unfolding processes , in this case the player can be configured as MQA passthrough.

A MQA Renderer dac needs instead the first unfolding process done by the player

 

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7 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

your speaking in circles and moving goalposts to defend your position. 

He read The Art of Being Right for sure … 

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4 hours ago, Archimago said:

file format that also provides good tagging features

Actually I can tag dsf files exactly like flac files, I use at least ten tags in addition to the “standard” ones without any issue.

Flac and dsf files are perfectly homogeneous in my library.