MQA is Vaporware

[Iving]

Here's just a point of view.

 

I'm British and 100% anti-MQA. Have participated in this thread and elsewhere on the www consistent with that.

 

It's bleeding obvious that FxStudio is getting far, far, far more personal stick and flak than he is dishing out. I don't see him being abusive at a level that should get anybody banned.

 

Presenting relatively weak arguments, or being repetitive, or refusing to play by somebody else's rules, or refusing to move towards someone else's chosen battleground - or insisting on a contrary burden of proof. None of these things - especially when you are in a minority of 1 against the mob - constitute "trolling" or warrant banning on a public Forum.

 

The real problem with this Forum is that its owner does not participate as a peer. He uses a power gradient with himself as sole moderator to skew discussions and deflect points of view inconsistent with his vision of the Forum's future. The galling thing about this is that he pretends otherwise.

 

Many interesting and capable members have been banned or have left. Not all of them deserved severance.

 

Audiophile Style has become an echo chamber frequented by "comfortable" people with a view of enjoying music, enhanced by good gear, that is pretty significantly less than 360 degrees. 

 

So be it then.

[Iving]

1 hour ago, bambadoo said:

Brian Lucey was right. 

 

1 hour ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

His couldn't be more incorrect and offensive. 

 

To the best of my understanding, Lucey's "audiophiles" - about whom he was cruelly disparaging - are exemplified by the sucker taken in by the MQA little blue light. We have ridiculed those people too.

 

Lucey has swagger - but imo he can carry it off. I'm glad he's been so emphatically outspoken against MQA ... especially as a Pro Audio guy with a good reputation as a mastering engineer. Thick with Neil Young of course.

 

I count myself as an audiophile, and never considered he was talking about me. Even if he were, I wouldn't have been offended. I truly doubt he was referring to people who pursue good sound intelligently.

 

Maybe I missed him being offensive in other ways. But if not I'd love to see him write a guest piece here. Probably too late given MQA RIP.