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44 minutes ago, Samuel T Cogley said:

I mostly agree, but purchasers of the iDSD Pro aren't given the choice to decline the MQA licensing fee.

 

Thats true, and I can't help but wonder how much that licensing fee, along with all of the associated long man hours iFi spent in implementing MQA caused the retail price of the iDSD Pro to skyrocket from an initially estimated $1,500, to the eventual $2,500 msrp.

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10 minutes ago, Lee Scoggins said:

There is too much missing information to judge how MQA is doing financially.

 

So you missed those last 2 year's financial statements and the need for a £5 million loan to keep things afloat that @KeenObserver aptly alluded to?

 

The only thing missing as yet in judging how MQA is doing financially is the upcoming July financial statement for 2018.

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1 hour ago, KeenObserver said:

Which also raises the issue of barriers to entry.

 

No small issue, and when taken in the context of other factors such as the massive consolidation of record labels over the years, MQA looks rather anti-competitive, and absolutely anti-consumer.

 

Your entire post is spot on, this is the play they are attempting. Swiss private equity firms don't throw good money after bad on a whim and prayer.

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24 minutes ago, Shadders said:

An MQA file or CD is 16bit/48kHz, or 16bit 44.1kHz with added noise for the MQA upper frequency coding. Unless you have an MQA capable product (which costs), then as a consumer you have a degraded sound file. If you want to remove the degradation from the file you have to purchase an MQA capable product.

 

So, as a consumer, MQA means to have at least, a clear/unadulterated 16bit sound file which has lossy coding, you have to purchase an MQA capable product, which adds the HF, which is lossy, causes blur, and aliases.

 

There is absolutely NO potential in MQA. It is a complete and utter abortion of a scheme.

 

Only MQA Ltd gains.

 

Very well said, nicely boiled down for clarity and ease in understanding. There has not been any credible response to the above by anyone from MQA (nor their shills) to date.

 

Even more concise/better yet:

 

3 minutes ago, Shadders said:

You either get a noisy 16bit file with reduced S/N and dynamic range, or when decoded, a lossy, blurring, aliasing output. Utter shite.

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