MQA is Vaporware

[Ralf11]

Ask not what you can do to MQA

Ask what MQA can do for you

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Thank you. We're getting closer to having something to discuss.

 

That is just part of the War on Science. The very highly paid PR firms that the tobacco industry hired was re-hired by the Oil&Gas industry to attack scientists. Add in the attacks by the chemical industry on scientists (e.g. Monsanto's attacks on Dr. Tyrone Hayes*) and some others, and there you are.

 

 

* A Valuable Reputation - The New Yorker

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reverse engineering is done all the time in the tech industry - it does not mean slavish replication, but usually alteration of what they find to either improve on it, or just avoid an IP suit

 

a minority of cases result in IP suits, some of them patent based

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Working on it :~)

 

it would also be interesting to know how much the SQ improvement is for which types and ages of source material

 

i.e. can it put Robt. Johnson in the room with me?

 

(assuming I want that - maybe pre-soul sale or something....)

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the perp in question wasted 2 pages of bandwidth for an agenda of poking at another poster - that is not an audio or electronic agenda, which is the difference I think

 

I felt that was way overboard so I reported it - dunno if others did too

[Ralf11]

how about a title change to:

 

"MQA is Vapidware"

[Ralf11]

2 items determine if we can call it vaporware?

 

sure, that's fine with me

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I'm just glad the MQA threads SURVIVED the site upgrade...

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assuming arguendo that MQA can (and will) produce better SQ, that increment has to be adequate to make up for the detriment in consumer control over their property when they buy music

 

-- not claiming that the consumer owns it all in toto, but using the analogy that property is a bundle of sticks, the consumer owns some of those sticks

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MQA (apparently) restricts what the owner can do with the file, as in moving it to a different player or storage medium.

 

After long experience with copy-protected software and loss of work from having its protection go haywire, not to mention the extra hassle of fixing it, i now avoid it like the plague.

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21 hours ago, jhwalker said:

 

No, it doesn't.  MQA files are completely transportable, just like any other audio file.

 

Where did you hear this?

 

 

On this and other boards.

 

Where did you hear of an iron-clad guarantee that MQA files will always be completely transportable to other media and to other components??

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Yes, they spun it off a while back.

 

I pay serious attention to anything Bob Stuart does.

 

Listening tests are what I want to ...ah... hear.

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I just hope I'll be able to use MQA on my cassette deck....

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47 minutes ago, Sal1950 said:

... our lossless master files ....

 

 

our?

 

I'm not the owner of any masters, just a consumer.  I think your question may be: "why shouldn't consumers be up in arms about this and riot in the streets"

 

 

[Ralf11]

It's performing a deconvolution.

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I have to say, that despite the regard I have for Bob Stuart, his explanations do seem somewhat... ah... convoluted.

 

But maybe he is just trying to protect trade secrets.  Copyrights and patents don't always give you all the protection you want.

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well, suppose it only looses information that cannot be heard by any human

 

can we call it lossless?  or not?

 

I'm all in for the pitchfork thing tho -- as long as they are free

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I just want to know if MQA has destroyed Western Civilization yet?

 

 

and are we ready for Phaze III

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Let me respond by modifying your post a bit...

 

To be honest, Porsche doesn't really mean anything, except to a hugely small () segment of the population. Most people today seem quite happy with their crummy fat SUVs and horrible self-driving pods. Very few people "drive" cars anymore...most just sit in it, get conveyed around and that is it.

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I think the very best products have been made by people who wanted something to fit their OWN ideal, not to "make money" (which BTW is what the Treasury Dept. does anyway).  Examples:

 

Patagonia (Great Pacific Iron Works)

Porsche

Ferrari

early hewlett-packard (tools for engineers, built by engineers)

Apple

 

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maybe this web site could contain a bot that would flash a warning on everyone's screen whenever the string MQA appears on the page

 

something like "WARNING!!  MQA may contain DRM!"

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6 minutes ago, Don Hills said:

 

(cough)

Cayenne.

(/cough)

(cough)(cough) Macan(cough)

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I'd like to see a digital "expansion" or unfolding origami sound quality increase that would ensure that the artists who create the music get adequate compensation, not the labels or A&R flacs.

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6 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

tons of speculation and fear mongering without many facts 

 

I blame html for that - things were fine before '94

 

Now, where's my cane?

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different frequencies are attenuated to different degrees by air - but it is not something over short distances; more like fractions of a mile or so