MQA is Vaporware

[FredericV]

1 hour ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Here's the MQA provided image for 16 bit data. It doesn't look pretty.

 

 

Furthermore, blanking 8 LSB bits from a 24 bit MQA file, so that we have 16 bits of entropy padded to 24 bit, still authenticates the file.

[Brinkman Ship]

10 minutes ago, Indydan said:

 

I must be slow today. I don’t get the cartoon.

...you kill one MQA gnat, and more just keep a comin'...

 

That was my way of noting how Peter Markus went SPATTTTT....

[Indydan]

3 minutes ago, Brinkman Ship said:

...you kill one MQA gnat, and more just keep a comin'...

 

That was my way of noting how Peter Markus went SPATTTTT....

 I see! And yes, they keep coming. Who will be next?

 

Isn’t Lee Scoggins supposed to report back here, once he does an analysis or test? 

 

I saw him post in the Shunyata forum on W B F recently. Looks like he has moved on...

[FredericV]

3 minutes ago, Indydan said:

MQA "enthusiast"                        Reason for no longer posting on CA

Peter Veth                                                          BANNED

Peter Veth (as Peter Markus)  BANNED for acting like a dick and being an MQA shill

In the past Peter Veth would announce to his followers in the secret MQA facebook group which pseudonym he would use.

Here he writes "I have challenged Archimago under my Pedro pseudonym":


 

 

So I am not surprised he tries to come back.

 

[FredericV]

4 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

MQA physical releases should not be sold as CDs nor have any Compact Disc logo. The only logo they should have is MQA which notifies the consumer of what s/he is purchasing. 

 

Good catch that the MQA logo isn't even there. It's advertised as CD on the link in that article.

 

 

I remember the days with DRM CD's which had a bad TOC. Any CD transport would read the first TOC.
Any computer would read the latest TOC on the CD, which had been tampered with, so ripping would go crazy.
There was special software such as EAC which could read the original TOC, and this special version was banned also.

With MQA CD, we are back in early 2000.

Philips stated that such discs were not permitted to bear the trademarked Compact Disc Digital Audio logo because they violate the Red Book specification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_and_DVD_copy_protection

Maybe Philips should do some kicking?

[Indydan]

9 minutes ago, FredericV said:

In the past Peter Veth would announce to his followers in the secret MQA facebook group which pseudonym he would use.

Here he writes "I have challenged Archimago under my Pedro pseudonym":


 

 

So I am not surprised he tries to come back.

 

 

He is a slimy shill. 

[Spacehound]

4 minutes ago, Indydan said:

 

He is a slimy shill. 

They all seem so utterly incompetent at shilling.

[mansr]

Just now, FredericV said:

I remember the days with DRM CD's which had a bad TOC. Any CD transport would read the first TOC.
Any computer would read the latest TOC on the CD, which had been tampered with, so ripping would go crazy.
There was special software such as EAC which could read the original TOC, and this special version was banned also.

With MQA CD, we are back in early 2000.

Philips stated that such discs were not permitted to bear the trademarked Compact Disc Digital Audio logo because they violate the Red Book specification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_and_DVD_copy_protection

Maybe Philips should do some kicking?

Same for the Sony malware CDs. In both cases, there was a clear spec violation. This is different. The structure of the CD is, as far as we know, correct. The alteration lies within the data stream only. In this respect it is similar to HDCD. It is not clear to me that this should preclude displaying the Compact Disc logo. Of course, in the extreme you get those DTS encoded CDs that produce only noise when played on a normal player. At least those were clearly labeled.

[Brinkman Ship]

5 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

They all seem so utterly incompetent at shilling.

"You incompetent shill!"...LOL...that is a great insult line....

[Ralf11]

38 minutes ago, Indydan said:

MQA "enthusiast"                        Reason for no longer posting on CA

Peter Veth                                                          BANNED

WitchDoctor                                                      BANNED

Lee Scoggins                             SCARED of his BS being called             

out

Michael Lavorgna                    BANNED for telling someone to go fuck his mother

Peter Veth (as Peter Markus)  BANNED for acting like a dick and being an MQA shill

 

 

 

•  

 

Good work!  You're on the job - maybe add dates?

[mansr]

4 minutes ago, Brinkman Ship said:

"You incompetent shill!"...LOL...that is a great insult line....

Can we put a Scottish twist on that?

[ShawnC]

2 hours ago, mansr said:

Can we put a Scottish twist on that?

Thinking Sean Connery

[Brinkman Ship]

18 minutes ago, ShawnC said:

Thinking Sean Connery

 

2 hours ago, mansr said:

Can we put a Scottish twist on that?

Yes, it MUST be delivered in a Scottish accent! I

[mansr]

20 minutes ago, ShawnC said:

Thinking Sean Connery

Thinking Scottish Insult Generator.

[ShawnC]

1 minute ago, mansr said:

Thinking Scottish Insult Generator.

Who thinks of this stuff, hilarious  

[Spacehound]

2 hours ago, FredericV said:

I remember the days with DRM CD's which had a bad TOC. Any CD transport would read the first TOC.
Any computer would read the latest TOC on the CD, which had been tampered with, so ripping would go crazy.
There was special software such as EAC which could read the original TOC, and this special version was banned also.

With MQA CD, we are back in early 2000.

Philips stated that such discs were not permitted to bear the trademarked Compact Disc Digital Audio logo because they violate the Red Book specification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_and_DVD_copy_protection

Maybe Philips should do some kicking?

According to Stuart  he did it deliberately  so the customer knows what he'd buying

 

Is there no end to Stuart's BS?   

[Brinkman Ship]

5 minutes ago, mansr said:

Thinking Scottish Insult Generator.

Ha, love it!

[mansr]

4 minutes ago, ShawnC said:

Who thinks of this stuff, hilarious  

Scots, apparently. That insult generator was inspired by the Scottish Twitter response to Trump's visit there a while back. Among my favourites was "cockjuggling fucknugget."

[Spacehound]

11 minutes ago, ShawnC said:

Who thinks of this stuff, hilarious  

There's a 'white paper' generator  too..

 

Isacc Asimov did it manually:  "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiotimoline

[mansr]

8 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

There's a 'white paper' generator  too..

The Postmodernism Generator is also great. And for more serious things there's SCIgen.

 

8 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

Isacc Asimov did it manually:  "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline"

As did Alan Sokal in Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.

[Spacehound]

1 hour ago, mansr said:

The Postmodernism Generator is also great. And for more serious things there's SCIgen.

 

As did Alan Sokal in Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.

I've only read a part of the second one, but I WILL read them fully.

 

"An aspect of quantum mechanics is liberal hegemony in  central Europe' - It's a Booker prize  literature  candidate review by the Times literary supplement!

[Indydan]

3 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

 

Good work!  You're on the job - maybe add dates?

 

I'll work on adding the dates. Does anyone remember when Lavorgna was banned? July 2017? 

[Indydan]

1 hour ago, mansr said:

The Postmodernism Generator is also great. And for more serious things there's SCIgen.

 

As did Alan Sokal in Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.

 

Mans and Spacehound. Come on guys, this is pretty low brow stuff. We're trying to have an intellectually elevated conversation here. Try and keep up...

 

 

:-)

[kumakuma]

18 minutes ago, Indydan said:

 

I'll work on adding the dates. Does anyone remember when Lavorgna was banned? July 2017? 

 

Oct 1

 

 

[Spacehound]

23 minutes ago, Indydan said:

 

Mans and Spacehound. Come on guys, this is pretty low brow stuff. We're trying to have an intellectually elevated  to conversation here. Try and keep up...

 

 

:-)

 

Quantum mechanics has got a lot to answer for.