MQA is Vaporware

[Rt66indierock]

Just now, Em2016 said:

 

Interesting.

 

Doing this yourself or with the help of Father, Son, Holy Spirit ? @mansr / @Archimago / @Miska?

 

 

Lots of help many not even realizing they are helping.

[Ralf11]

1 hour ago, FredericV said:

I no longer have the time to read this topic fully, so who is willing to make a weekly executive summary?

 

 

mav52 is GUTB

[Hugo9000]

Has anyone analyzed Meridian's "Bass and Space" and "Image Elevation" and "Upmix" "technologies" and compared whatever they do to MQA encoding's effects on audio files?  (Not the compression part, but other changes that occur with MQA.)  These are what LG refers to on their little BT speakers and a couple of soundbars when they claim they incorporate "Meridian Technology" in the designs.

 

The reason I ask is that the descriptions of the supposed or intended effects of this Meridian DSP reminds me of some of the positive comments from some listeners to MQA.

 

Bass and Space supposedly improves soundstage and envelopment, while increasing or improving bass.

Image Elevation supposedly raises the soundstage so it seems to match the location of a tv rather than a speaker or soundbar located below the tv.

Upmix supposedly further improves the soundstage and upgrades "clarity of vocals and lead instruments."

 

 

I haven't found any patents related to the things LG is using, but I've just done a cursory search.

 

 

Edited to add:  There is also something from Meridian called EBA--Enhanced Bass Alignment, which delays some frequencies  to give a "clearer soundstage with improved imaging and transient response." 

[shtf]

42 minutes ago, Rt66indierock said:

 

Nope after all Mueller failed. 

 

That's a shame.  But cheer up.  It's about to get far worse. 

[Ralf11]

There is a lot of unfolding yet to come...

[shtf]

1 minute ago, Ralf11 said:

There is a lot of unfolding yet to come...

 

Uh-huh.  And very clever. 

[sandyk]

2 hours ago, John Dyson said:

 

I did a complete, bit by bit comparison of the 05 and 05b files -- exactly the same, and will produce exactly the same results -- it is

John

 John

 I will repeat this again.

 Your indepth reports were 100% accurate !!! 

 I would suggest that if you are still talking to me , that you listen to some other files such as perhaps the ones that  I sent to M.C. . originally, which was Love Over Gold from the original Vertigo 800 088 -2 ( West Germany) pressing .(He had previously heard the actual Master Recording.)

 I apologise for including your personal comments, but if I had edited them out the PM/emails /PMs may not have appeared genuine. 

Incidentally, after me reporting back about the samples that you sent me, do you truthfully believe that my hearing is as bad as Admin has suggested ? Your email/PM  replies in the last 2 weeks suggest otherwise.

Please note also that Barry Diament trusts my hearing enough to help with the selection of the best S/W to use with the conversion from .aiff of the original recording to .wav with his new 24/192 album which will be officially released in May. (Yes. we both agreed on the best sounding out of 4 different lots of S/W)

 Barry has since re-encoded the previous 5 High Res albums from .aiff to .wav using the new S/W version.

For those that are interested, I understand that snippets from Barry's new album are already available to listen to on the Soundkeeper Format Comparison page where you can compare 24/192 against RBCD etc.

Regards

Alex

 

 P.S.
 My apologies for this off topic stuff, but I didn't start it .

[Rt66indierock]

26 minutes ago, shtf said:

 

That's a shame.  But cheer up.  It's about to get far worse. 

 

In what way?

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

1 hour ago, Rt66indierock said:

 

Nope after all Mueller failed. 

No, actually that is only what the Stooge In General. is telling you...

[shtf]

25 minutes ago, Rt66indierock said:

 

In what way?

 

Ummmm, let's see.  What was it that I heard?  Oh, yeah, yeah, now I remember.  They said, "Ain't nobody walking away from this one.  Nobody." 

 

But there's still more MQA to unfold.  Let's not digress any more than we already have. 

[Rt66indierock]

20 minutes ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

No, actually that is only what the Stooge In General. is telling you...

 

I used to live in The District someone would have leaked something to my old managing partner if there was something last year.

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

3 minutes ago, Rt66indierock said:

 

I used to live in The District someone would have leaked something to my old managing partner if there was something last year.

Nah, c'mon. They kept it air tight. 

[Rt66indierock]

1 minute ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

Nah, c'mon. They kept it air tight. 

 

Nothing is air tight in DC but way off topic so please get back to the topic.

[sandyk]

1 minute ago, Rt66indierock said:

 

Nothing is air tight in DC but way off topic so please get back to the topic.

 

 To do this you will ideally need to repost some of the indepth technical material that debunk's MQA claims,

 This thread is now way for too large for others to navigate .

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

3 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 

 To do this you will ideally need to repost some of the indepth technical material that debunk's MQA claims,

 This thread is now way for too large for others to navigate .

Real easy; A 2 or 3 page {anti} MQA White Paper...or dossier.

[Rt66indierock]

2 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 

 To do this you will ideally need to repost some of the indepth technical material that debunk's MQA claims,

 This thread is now way for too large for others to navigate .

 

Which keeps a lot of information hidden in plain sight. 

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

Just now, Rt66indierock said:

 

Which keeps a lot of information hidden in plain sight. 

have the tech people on this thread collaborate on an MQA dossier, and it will be linked far and wide...

[Rt66indierock]

1 minute ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

have the tech people on this thread collaborate on an MQA dossier, and it will be linked far and wide...

 

I'm a bit insulted. I already had this argument with my late friend Charley Hansen. He lost so lets do it my way until there is good reason not to. 

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

1 minute ago, Rt66indierock said:

 

I'm a bit insulted. I already had this argument with my late friend Charley Hansen. He lost so lets do it my way until there is good reason not to. 

Ok..but keep an open mind. 😎

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

17 minutes ago, Rt66indierock said:

 

I'm a bit insulted. I already had this argument with my late friend Charley Hansen. He lost so lets do it my way until there is good reason not to. 

Mr. Hansen was a mensch. The Aare mono blocks are on my bucket list....😎

[Rt66indierock]

1 minute ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

Ok..but keep an open mind. 😎

 

I'm very grateful to the people helping me. But the action will be or not be in financial results for the next few months. 

 

[Rt66indierock]

1 minute ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

Mr. Hansen was a mensch. The Aare mono blocks are on my bucket list....😎

 

He was fascinated that I knew and had spent time with James T Russell. I got a brain dump shortly before his death. I miss him. 

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

Just now, Rt66indierock said:

 

He was fascinated that I knew and had spent time with James T Russell. I got a brain dump shortly before his death. I miss him. 

thanks for that. He is in Hashem's hands. Of course I meant Ayre. Damn auto correct. 

[mav52]

2 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

 

 

mav52 is GUTB

Lol. You have no clue

[asdf1000]

1 hour ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

have the tech people on this thread collaborate on an MQA dossier, and it will be linked far and wide...

 

Wasn't that done long ago? Posted to the front page of this forum? And linked far and wide already...