MQA is Vaporware

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7 minutes ago, Fast and Bulbous said:

well understood strategic approach for discontinuous innovation

Or it could be just your group paranoia...The end is nigh!

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1 hour ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

Another DOA Meridian product

I don't think you're the target market. More installer, which is quite profitable and something you'll struggle to sour.

If you want to have a go, they dropped Airplay from this product. Not a good move.

 

Meridian are an easy target for you guys, It doesn't change their history though and bang on as much as you like, there's some excellent, exceedingly well price Meridian audio gear out there that play music very well indeed. You've got the wrong guy...

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13 minutes ago, MikeyFresh said:

Which history would that be, the one where Meridian lost a cumulative £40 million with their fantastic product offerings and savvy business acumen?

The history where they made excellent hifi products, the first digital actives for instance. The Hifi history, not the money history. I thought this site was about Hifi, not money. Shoot me....

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9 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Words to never be in the same sentence as Meridian. As evidenced by their continued multimillion pound losses.

Yup, as I said "soft target". For me it's about Hifi, not how much money a company makes. Their excellent products e.g. DSP speakers are exceedingly good value. But don't let listening to good music on good, cheap equipment distract the group from MQA hate...

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13 minutes ago, MikeyFresh said:

home theater and 5.1 systems

They do indeed make excellent 5.1 systems, ever heard one? I doubt it. How much of the £40m was installer related?

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2 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Guess the market must be dumb if it missed these great values.

errr actually yes Chris. I challenge you to pick up a pair of say 7200.2s, put a decent source throughout and listen. 

 

You believe the market is intelligent? Multi thousand dollar cables? Yes the market can be dumb but have a listen and speak from experience maybe...

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8 minutes ago, botrytis said:

If MQA is about Hi Fi

And if we weren't talking about Meridian and it's excellent product history, you'd have a point. But you don't.

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2 minutes ago, kumakuma said:

I'm not sure I would use the word "cheap" to refer to speakers that range in price from  £3,300.00 to £26,000.00 a pair.

List prices only. You can buy an excellent active speaker for £600, just add a streamer, you'd be amazed. Really.

I'm listening to a list price pair £18500, you can pick them up in mint condition for under £6000. 

List prices are mainly for the brand imaging...

There were bit niche but now you can just plug a streamer in, possibly the best kept secret in hifi...

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4 minutes ago, botrytis said:

So what does that say?

Err people don't know how good they are? They are niche? They don't market them?

I doubt you've listened to many DSP speakers with a decent source input. 

This is about MQA hate, not hifi, it won't result in a serious conversation unfortunately. 

Get a pair of 6ks, get someone to re-cap the PS, possibly other caps. Probably $2500, stunning for the money. 

Hate blinds (and deafens).

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Challenge rejected then.

 

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1 hour ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

Meridian's products were square pegs trying to fit into round holes.

Yeah, like Sooloos, which turned into Roon, stupid idea right?

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1 hour ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

no stand alone DAC until 2017???

Except the one in 1990? Really, you guys are blinded by the hate. Pretty sad stuff. Good night, it's late here.

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1 minute ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

They of course bought Sooloos and were too unsmart to keep it

Smart enough to spot the idea though.

This is in no way a sensible discussion, your combined hate blinds you to all the good stuff that there's been. 

Too unsmart to keep it? Smart move to let is go and to develop into what it is, if you kept a stake? Two ways to see a thing but with you guys you always try to turn good into bad. Sad.

Don't forget to have the last word though...Night

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6 minutes ago, Allan F said:

I first look at those with 1 star

Paid for by a competitor?

 

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On 8/24/2019 at 5:13 PM, The Computer Audiophile said:

Remember, there’s no way judge complete formats. What tracks did you listen to?

 

also, remember that some MQA sounds far different from those who worked on the album say it should sound. If you like a flavor other than what the artist intended that’s totally OK. But, we shouldn’t mandate a flavor for everyone and that’s what MQA does.

Here we go, a guy likes the sounds and we have you lot pointing out why he shouldn't. Thought police.

 

There's only one way to listen to music, and it's guess what...MQA shouldn't instruct, we should.

 

Artist intended? Really?

 

I guess this makes me a "shill" rather than someone with a difference of opinion. 

 

I have a lifetimes worth of non MQA files, artists will release non MQA files, my DAC will see me out. Sorry I don't share your paranoia, get out more.

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47 minutes ago, FredericV said:

He is not interested in telling the truth

Still, as long as it sounds great...

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2 minutes ago, lucretius said:

Have you asked them?

They vote with their wallets? 

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6 hours ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

This has been a brutal week for the audio press here

And if it was less of a hate fest/campaign, more people would read it. As it is, it's just a dark corner...(waits for click counts data...) 

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1 hour ago, botrytis said:

If people enjoy it, that doesn't bother me at all

Oh yes it does...

1 hour ago, crenca said:

However, the basis of this subjectivism rests on the objectively real - or it is nothing at all.  The current culture/hobby/industry of Audiophiledom is too too comfortable with the subjective con game...

You really should get out more...

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Content on this thread doesn’t improve. Keep it going though.... by any means possible. 

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2 hours ago, ShawnC said:

Replace “this thread”with MQA and it’s perfect. 

Content on MQA doesn't improve? Doesn't quite make sense but I know her you're coming from...zz

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9 minutes ago, Samuel T Cogley said:

I might be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure your subjective estimation of the quality of content in this thread is utterly irrelevant.

 Right first time, you're mistaken.

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Not particularly. Why? Am I on your annoying list?

Look up my contributions yet? 

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2 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

It doesn't add up

 

It obviously does. I think "hanging out" isn't a good description, I just "pop in" to see if there is anything new and what sort of stuff the gang are going on about to keep the topic interesting.

 

"All things Bob Stuart" is another poor term, I suppose it's meant to be a sort of insult. Meridian make some good gear, you'll never know about it, you simply dislike by association. Nobody is interested in me anyway, I'm not interesting.

 

I'm not really bothered about MQA. Other motivations exist in life...

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1 hour ago, Samuel T Cogley said:

Deflection and dissembling

Not a lot to deflect from. Dissembling, well if it makes you happy...

1 hour ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I don't consider your following post to be just popping in

No indeed, that's a comment, popping in means clicking on a button and reading content. Not sure what your point is?