MQA is Vaporware

[mjb]

I get the impression there's some big money pushing all this MQA stuff. We don't need it, but we're gonna get it. Hopefully consumers won't allow themselves to be duped.

[mjb]

5 hours ago, witchdoctor said:

Really? Have you compared it to Redbook via an MQA DAC?

No sir, I haven't. Which I suppose disqualifies me from commenting. 

[mjb]

If there's anything that 16 months and 342 pages of "MQA is Vaporware" has shown, is that it isn't.

[mjb]

I actually think Techmoan's video is pretty good, and he touches on how difficult (and expensive) it is to play them. But I think his conclusion that MQA CDs are "richer, fuller, deeper, wider" is questionable given that Brothers in Arms was originally recorded and mixed at 16/44.1. Obviously levels or some DSP voodoo is playing with the output.

[mjb]

On 6/27/2018 at 7:25 AM, Ralf11 said:

I'm not on Tidal - it's CD or nothing.

 

Same here. There are some fantastic second hand CD deals around these days too, thanks to the popularity of streaming I presume.