lucretius Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 On 9/6/2017 at 4:07 AM, Miska said: Even if a format is "extinct" the content is not. So if I ever purchase content I want to have the freedom to losslessly transcode it to a new container without having to purchase the same content over and over again. Standard FLAC, ALAC and such allow this. MQA is breaking this possibility, on purpose. Since I use primarily Linux, I won't be able to use that software. Apparently, this is not the case. I downloaded a MQA file from www.2l.no, which came in a flac container. Played it on my MQA DAC and it unfolded to 24/352 (and the MQA indicator lit up). Then, using dBpoweramp, I converted the file to AIFF, ALAC, and WAV. All three of these files played on my MQA DAC and unfolded to 24/352 (with the MQA indicator lit up). Also a quick check revealed that all four files played fine on a non-MQA DAC like 16/44.1. [Used JRiver Media Center for this test.] tmtomh 1 mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 28 minutes ago, Shadders said: Hi, For streaming - possibly, but for downloads - i will not want a lossy format. We already have a lossy format as in MP3. I do take your point that it is new and shiny though. If we the 1% know that MQA is utter shite/con, then why would someone want to buy something lossy and has aliasing ? The issue, as has been posted here - is that they may remove high res files and offer MQA only. Regards, Shadders. MQA is lossy but not that lossy. The idea is that you can get something that sounds similar to 16/44.1 or 24/96, etc. without actually having possession of the master. Also, the MQA file contains a digital signature, to allow tracing the file back to its origin. As to why someone would want to purchase/stream MQA files -- maybe it will be the only alternative. mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 10 minutes ago, Shadders said: i will still purchase CD's. So long as they are available! mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 On 9/20/2017 at 5:47 PM, Charles Hansen said: It's all part of our sick (as in unhealthy, diseased, unsustainable) culture that precisely mirrors the world of Orwell's novel "1984". And so says someone brought up on this book. I really think we need some new books in the curriculum. mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 47 minutes ago, realhifi said: Just noticed this ad for NAD’s new receivers. The ad is in Sound & Vision which is as mainstream as A/V gets. Look closely at bottom left of ad that lists features of the receiver. Looks like slightly more than vaporware at this juncture. MQA is going to bypass audiophiles and go right for the general consumer. The Computer Audiophile 1 mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 4 minutes ago, crenca said: That last article is such a fresh stinking pile, it should prompt one to say "That is not only not right; it is not even wrong". What problem that TAS and the whole industry has with MQA is that the confidence game is up but they will keep trying because unfortunately it has worked for them in the past... The first clue would be the reference to Kuhn (oh brother!). mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 15 hours ago, FredericV said: The zodiac platinum will accept 24 bit in any samplerate up to 384K, so those decimated MQA files which are typically 24/44.1 or 24/48 will just play, but with a higher noise floor as 9 bits contain the control data and secret DRM encrypted MQA non-nyquist data, which a normal dac will play as noise. When using sox based resampling, the difference between the original DXD master (in case of 2L.no) and upsampled MQA using nothing more than the 24/44.1 or 24/48 files and no licensed decoder, becomes so small it cannot be distinguished under blind testing, even on the most expensive sets. Most are guessing or can't tell them apart. In the test we did on the show, nobody could even numerate any difference between both. Anyone can peer review the test:http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2017/07/kih-46-mqas-missing-link/ So a MQA file played without a decoder cannot be distinguished under blind testing from the original DXD master. I fail to see how that is "very bad for MQA". mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 2 minutes ago, FredericV said: Only on the condition of using minimum phase upsampling, which so far hqplayer, 432 EVO and Auralic have implemented in their products. There may be other as well, I open sourced our findings, so any dev can use it in their product. So it's still bad, as most don't have this resampler. It's also bad because MQA has DRM and deliberate crippling features in the patent so that the above can be sabotaged in the future without MQA decoder, and the file size increments compared to real nyquist data compressed as flac. Thanks for the explanation. mQa is dead! Link to comment
Popular Post lucretius Posted October 17, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2017 1 hour ago, FredericV said: Disclosing private emails between companies is not allowed by both Belgian and Dutch law. Furthermore these emails are incomplete and out of context as they lack the embedded content which prove the slandering. You are also violating every privacy law in Europe. Since yesterday you started to call me a fraud without proof. You also changed the topic into attacking my product.Which company would allow their employees to disclose private emails on public forum like CA, and attack other companies while being paid to do another job? I defend myself because you continue to attack me, even though Chris has asked you to stop this and warned both of us with a ban. As no action has been taken to respect the privacy of email conversations, I can only react to what is happening here. I would suggest you to take it down immediately. We will never be friends, but copy pasting private emails is not acceptable. Sir, I appreciate your technical posts very much and I am sure many others do also. However, I fear that you are on a sure course to getting banned. My only hope is that you will stand down from this craziness, so that we can all continue enjoying your posts at CA. Kindest regards! Tsarnik, MikeyFresh, The Computer Audiophile and 2 others 4 1 mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 11 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said: Thought I already said it in my post :~) Edit: They see MQA as a vehicle to sell again to the same customer base who buys something at every change in tech. And/or to a new group of "kids" not burdened by the "traditional", entitled audiophile paradigms. mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 8 minutes ago, witchdoctor said: To my ears the MQA Motown playlist is awesome. James Jamerson on the bass really stands out better than anything I have heard before.https://tidal.com/playlist/4e618a07-fd16-48ff-a0b3-efdfb28cf408 Thanks! Sounds great! mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 6 hours ago, Ralf11 said: Tidal sucks - they use Class D amps!! mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 23 minutes ago, PeterSt said: Machine Head I've never been able to find a digital version of this that doesn't suffer from a high level of tape hiss. mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 4 minutes ago, PeterSt said: I have talked about this countless of times. I think even in the Lush thread. Did you (or can you) try the MQA version ? it is the very first which is as fresh as can be. Just what all these failed version needed. Including the HDCD (especially that !) and the Hires. So the MQA incarnation of Machine Head is by far my preferred version. Also when played undecoded it would be (I think) but that one just does not "work" (no music). If you play them subsequently (I only did Highway Star) then you just can't tell what actually happened to the / during the Unfold. But I dare bet quite some $ that this is not just unfold to "hires" (96KHz). Thanks! I will try the MQA version on Tidal. mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 3 hours ago, Samuel T Cogley said: Perhaps this is a fringe opinion, but I've always believed the existence of tape hiss on a digital transfer was a good sign that the digital restoration didn't overdo it on the noise reduction. In other words, tape hiss = fidelity. In the 2000s, too many remasters had way too liberal amounts of NoNOISE applied, which tended to suck the life out of the music. That's one way to look at it. It seems I had less tape hiss from cassettes -- but then I used whatever Dolby I had on my deck. mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 2 hours ago, fung0 said: The more avid the audiophile, the quicker the Dolby was disabled. Ahh, the old debate "Dolby ? or not Dolby ? That is the noise reduction". I understand that many analog master tapes were done with Dolby or some other noise reduction. mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 9 minutes ago, Charles Hansen said: Yes, that is because the MQA-organized group has directed its trolls to distract from all threads about MQA - much like happens in political races where there are "astro-turf" (fake grassroots) campaigns designed to deceive the public. It looks like a general interest group started by Peter Veth and not some industry group. Thou doth protest too much? mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 2 hours ago, Charles Hansen said: Hello Samuel, Thanks for the info. I don't know why some people do such shilling. Are they paid to do so, or are they just so insecure as to need "approval" from some authority figure like Bob Stuart or Caelin Gabriel. (The fact that Caelin Gabriel chose a Japanese sounding name for his company makes me very suspicious right off the bat. Why would he want to potential customers to think that he was based in Japan? It's kind of the reverse of Korean company Astell & Kern who deliberately chose a British-sounding name for their company. It makes the opposite impression on me than what was intended, as it clearly implies that they are being deceptive from the ground up. Then you get really weird things like designed in the Netherlands, made in China equipment from a company that chose a grammatically-incorrect Spanish name of "Prima Luna" - first moon - it should be "Luna Prima". Their latest ad is obviously attacking Audio Research and claims that ARC's PCB are wave soldered "overseas" - I doubt this is true - while completely glossing over the fact that all of their equipment is made in Chinese sweat-shops.) And people wonder why so many think high-end audio is a joke... Look at it this way: How many people outside of China would buy audio equipment (made in China) from companies with Chinese names? It's just marketing; some of it makes sense, some of it does not. mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 1 hour ago, christopher3393 said: The "self" is empty, it is a construction of aggregates that are interdependent. Is the word "quantum" used at all? mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 3 hours ago, Fokus said: That is not correct. There was electronics company Goldstar, who traded under that name, also in the West. Then there was plastics company Lucky. Lucky and Goldstar merged in the 90s, and immediately rebranded as LG. According to Wikipedia, Lucky and Goldstar merged and formed Lucky-GoldStar in 1958. In 1995 the Lucky-GoldStar Corporation was renamed "LG". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Corporation ... which seems to conflict with this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Electronics You can't always trust Wikipedia. mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 2 minutes ago, maxijazz said: Support for FLAC in iOS11 is from iPhone 7 up. But I agree with sentiment, in general. And no support for iPod Touch's or iPad Mini's. mQa is dead! Link to comment
lucretius Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 15 hours ago, #Yoda# said: MQA is anything else than that. Maybe, Neal Young and his team recognized the contradiction in Bob Stewards conception about MQA in this early stage, I don't know. That's Bob Stuart. mQa is dead! Link to comment
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