MQA is Vaporware

[PeterSt]

Cookie Cutter (Music) : Marked by sameness and a lack of originality; mass-produced.

 

https://www.google.nl/search?client=opera&q="cookie+cutter"&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

 

Now we now what the message was. Maybe it's a UK term.

[Shadders]

6 minutes ago, PeterSt said:

Cookie Cutter (Music) : Marked by sameness and a lack of originality; mass-produced.

 

https://www.google.nl/search?client=opera&q="cookie+cutter"&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

 

Now we now what the message was. Maybe it's a UK term.

Hi PeterSt,

Absolutely not a UK term. We have biscuits over here.

Regards,

Shadders.

[mansr]

Just now, Shadders said:

Absolutely not a UK term. We have biscuits over here.

Can we have a debate about the difference between a cake and a biscuit?

[Shadders]

Just now, mansr said:

Can we have a debate about the difference between a cake and a biscuit?

Hi mansr,

Yes - a cake is of soft composition, large diameter, with multiple flavours, usually eaten with a cup of tea. Generally in the afternoon.

A biscuit is hard composition, small diameter, usually eaten at any time of the day.

This site seems to be frequented by savages.

Regards,

Shadders.

[synn]

I’ve heard that Bob Stuart has invented a biscuit that unfolds into a cake.

[Shadders]

2 minutes ago, synn said:

I’ve heard that Bob Stuart has invented a biscuit that unfolds into a cake.

Hi synn,

Yes, but you lose a lot of the flavour, with the first unfold.

Regards,

Shadders.

[Charente]

You'll get me started on JAFFA CAKES !

[Skirmash]

There is still very little better to me than a Rich Tea biscuit dipped in hot tea. A drink is too wet without one!

 

Best,

 

Ash

[rickca]

4 hours ago, Brian Lucey said:

Very busy, 50 clients a month, I can't do more.

Brian, how much time do you spend on a given mastering project?  I'm sure it varies widely, but what is typical and what is the range?  How do you manage so many concurrent clients? 

[Samuel T Cogley]

11 hours ago, Brian Lucey said:

 

It's a simple question.  A forum of answers is not needed.

 

Do you want the real deal, or do you want your ideas, your ego and your investment in system to be part of the "creative" process?

 

For me, the answer is something like a question back to you:

 

What demographic are you mastering for?  You have some sense (I hope) of your target audience, and what they use to listen to your work.  Your published discography strongly suggests you're mastering for consumption on mass market consumer audio gear (earbuds, Bluetooth speakers, car stereos, etc.)

 

If you're not mastering for the immersive audiophile experience, how can you say you really claim to know anything about audiophiles?  You say what you're hearing when you master should be the goal of everyone listening to your work.  I'm saying, with due respect, that a significant amount of your output is antithetical to what I've come to know as the audiophile experience.  You said yourself it's like cramming way too many people in a phone booth, and twiddling the knobs so that everyone there can be heard.  That's not really what audiophiles want.  Or at least, what I've come to know about audiophiles.

 

But getting back to the thread, we have suspicion about MQA in common, and we should focus on what we agree on.

[mansr]

53 minutes ago, Shadders said:

Yes - a cake is of soft composition, large diameter, with multiple flavours, usually eaten with a cup of tea. Generally in the afternoon.

A biscuit is hard composition, small diameter, usually eaten at any time of the day.

This site seems to be frequented by savages.

If left out, a cake goes hard whereas a biscuit goes soft.

[semente]

14 hours ago, Lee Scoggins said:

 

Brian,

 

As someone who records in various sampling rates in PCM and DSD, I have to differ here.  44.1 can sound very good, however, we have found that 24/88 or higher is essential to getting the timbre of fine violins correct on classical ensemble recordings and it also affects instruments in jazz ensembles.

 

All else being equal (proper mic placement, decent ADC and DAC gear, good cabling and power), a hirez format is still a step up from the best 16/44.1.

 

A proper mic is also mandatory for getting the timbre of a violin right. Steer clear of mics that exaggerate the upper octaves.

[labjr]

24 minutes ago, mansr said:

If left out, a cake goes hard whereas a biscuit goes soft.

 

I'm getting to the age where I would describe myself more as a biscuit.

[mcgillroy]

1 hour ago, synn said:

I’ve heard that Bob Stuart has invented a biscuit that unfolds into a cake.

 

Actually he proved that scrambled egg is only temporarily blurred.

[synn]

5 minutes ago, mcgillroy said:

 

Actually he proved that scrambled egg is only temporarily blurred.

 

Authenticated by the chicken that laid the egg no less.

[Shadders]

7 minutes ago, synn said:

 

Authenticated by the chicken that laid the egg no less.

Were they free range, or high dynamic range chickens.....

[mav52]

when biscuits go stale, they go soft. When cakes go stale, they harden. Jaffa Cakes, it emerged, go hard. and I like my biscuits right out of the oven with butter and honey while listening to music in the morning with a hot cup of kona coffee

[synn]

Just now, Shadders said:

Were they free range, or high dynamic range chickens.....

 

High dynamic range chicken are OLD

if you like their eggs, you are WRONG!

 

lies!

 

etc... etc...

[Shadders]

20 minutes ago, synn said:

 

High dynamic range chicken are OLD

if you like their eggs, you are WRONG!

 

lies!

 

etc... etc...

Old chickens have an eggcellent flavour, if you cook them with the right equipment.

A new bird, is always welcome though.

[semente]

12 hours ago, firedog said:

Don’t disagree with you. But Alison Klaus recordings aren’t very much like Kanye West, Beyoncé, or even The Black Keys. I think on those it would be much harder to hear the difference.

 

This is the kind of stuff that my sun listens to, Mendes, a girl named Cabelo. It sounds better through his Bluetooth speaker or car stereo than in my system...

[semente]

13 hours ago, firedog said:

There are hi-res audiophile download sites that often give this information: acousticsounds.com, highresaudio.de, e-classical.com, nativedsd.com. Other classical oriented sites.

 

And yes, I realize these are niche sites. For mainstream stuff you don’t get the info.

 

If Native DSD is what I think it is, I wonder how many recordings are available, not counting vintage analogue stuff that was digitised (i.e. RCA/Sony)?

[firedog]

34 minutes ago, semente said:

 

If Native DSD is what I think it is, I wonder how many recordings are available, not counting vintage analogue stuff that was digitised (i.e. RCA/Sony)?

Acc'd to their search engine about 1120 of 1250 albums are NOT analog based. But I'm not sure if that does or doesn't include DSD extracted from SACD that was originally in some other format before SACD. If you ask for "not analog sourced, never available as SACD" you get 300 albums.  

Those would seem for sure to be ""DSD"". But then you have to look and see how it was produced: was it recorded to DSD and just edited, meaning it is 99% native DSD, or was it mixed in analog, or converted to DXD and then back to DSD. 

Maybe TedB can enlighten us on this. 

[semente]

8 hours ago, synn said:

 

“There is no U in color” - Mastering engineer Brian Lucey.

 

England in uproar. The queen mobilizes troops. More at 11.

 

Theresa May, don't focus on Brian Lucey, focus on the destructive MQA.

[Hifi Bob]

All I want for Christmas is...

 

... anything but MQA.

 

If it can’t even raise a spike of interest at this time of year (and after three years of marketing), there seems little prospect of it going anywhere.  Bob’s only hope is for someone with more money than sense (think Microsoft:HDCD, Apple:Beats) to buy him out.

[christopher3393]

Expect a quantum leap in paradigm shifts soon. Think: "graphene balls".