MQA is Vaporware

[FredericV]

3 minutes ago, daverich4 said:

 

https://audiophilereview.com/authors/steven-stone.html

 

He just wrote this:

https://audiophilereview.com/audiophile-news/an-audio-test-that-may-or-may-not-prove-something.html

 

where he mentions Archimago's article

[kumakuma]

4 minutes ago, daverich4 said:

 

https://audiophilereview.com/authors/steven-stone.html

 

The fact that he uses the term "music playing software" in his profile suggests that @crenca might be correct.

 

I'd like to expand on this but I'm working on a business plan using my "number manipulating software" and "document writing software".

[Rt66indierock]

5 minutes ago, FredericV said:

He spilled the beans: he ignored all the independent research:

 

 

 

 

One of the reasons he is in my Rogue's Gallery of MQA supporters.

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

4 minutes ago, daverich4 said:

 

https://audiophilereview.com/authors/steven-stone.html

First, that is a 25 year old old picture lol. Second, he apparently has all his gear under a desk. And that is the tip of the iceberg of why I think he is a charlatan. 😎

[crenca]

1 minute ago, FredericV said:

He spilled the beans: he ignored all the independent research:

 

 

 

 

He's just trolling you.  He does not care about the truth though he might very well know what it is. He is promoting MQA. It's why I say we are "post technical".  The confidence men in audio never have been about truth, only $promoting$ things.

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

1 minute ago, crenca said:

 

He's just trolling you.  He does not care about the truth though he might very well know what it is. He is promoting MQA. It's why I say we are "post technical".  The confidence men in audio never have been about truth, only $promoting$ things.

I promise a new classification for those who blindly support MQA without regards to reality-

 

" PTPT"

 

Post Technical Post Truth club. 

[Rt66indierock]

Back to regularly scheduled programming.

 

7digital will require material further equity and/or debt funding by the beginning of June 2019. “Without such funding, the Company is unlikely to be able to continue as a going concern.” From the London Stock Exchange April 11, 2019

 

It will be hard for HDTracks to launch its MQA streaming service without 7digital.

[crenca]

6 minutes ago, FredericV said:

 

He just wrote this:

https://audiophilereview.com/audiophile-news/an-audio-test-that-may-or-may-not-prove-something.html

 

where he mentions Archimago's article

 

That article might be summed up by this sentence:

 

" ...it could be argued that using the 16/44 CD tracks introduces issues due to playback errors compared to the same data on a digital file... "

 

He is back in the rank digitally ignorant bin with Hans...

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

4 minutes ago, Rt66indierock said:

Back to regularly scheduled programming.

 

7digital will require material further equity and/or debt funding by the beginning of June 2019. “Without such funding, the Company is unlikely to be able to continue as a going concern.” From the London Stock Exchange April 11, 2019

 

It will be hard for HDTracks to launch its MQA streaming service without 7digital.

Wow.7digital is actually a really good FLAC download store. It would be a shame.

 

It also is further proof that even LOSSLESS Redbook music in a non physical format is dying a death. To the mass of consumers Mp3 IS lossless.

 

 

[crenca]

2 minutes ago, Rt66indierock said:

Back to regularly scheduled programming.

 

7digital will require material further equity and/or debt funding by the beginning of June 2019. “Without such funding, the Company is unlikely to be able to continue as a going concern.” From the London Stock Exchange April 11, 2019

 

It will be hard for HDTracks to launch its MQA streaming service without 7digital.

 

I purchase quite a bit of my downloads from 7digital...

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

3 minutes ago, Rt66indierock said:

Back to regularly scheduled programming.

 

7digital will require material further equity and/or debt funding by the beginning of June 2019. “Without such funding, the Company is unlikely to be able to continue as a going concern.” From the London Stock Exchange April 11, 2019

 

It will be hard for HDTracks to launch its MQA streaming service without 7digital.

That streaming service is DOA. Never gonna happen. 😥

[new_media]

1 minute ago, crenca said:

 

I purchase quite a bit of my downloads from 7digital...

 

Same here.

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

2 minutes ago, crenca said:

 

I purchase quite a bit of my downloads from 7digital...

Me too. Lots of world music, jazz, and some 24 bit stuff available no where else. 

[crenca]

4 minutes ago, new_media said:

 

Same here.

 

I find that when they do have the Hi Res of something I am looking for its regular price is at or below HDTracks "sales price"and the others with their never ending sales and email coupon specials.  That, and most of the time they have the 16/44 as well which I sometimes get anyways depending upon the quality of the mastering, etc.

[daverich4]

16 minutes ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

First, that is a 25 year old old picture lol. Second, he apparently has all his gear under a desk. And that is the tip of the iceberg of why I think he is a charlatan. 😎

 

Those things might all be true, I have no idea. You said you didn't know who he is, that's who he is.

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

1 minute ago, daverich4 said:

 

Those things might all be true, I have no idea. You said you didn't know who he is, that's who he is.

All true. FYI it was another poster who said he did not know who he was. I know him as long time reviewer with the Absolute Sound.

[Daccord]

9 minutes ago, crenca said:

 

I find that when they do have the Hi Res of something I am looking for its regular price is at or below HDTracks "sales price"and the others with their never ending sales and email coupon specials.  That, and most of the time they have the 16/44 as well which I sometimes get anyways depending upon the quality of the mastering, etc.

 

Their store accepts Canadian currency and they don't add local taxes, which saves me 13% in Ontario. I'll be sad if they disappear.

[daverich4]

15 minutes ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

All true. FYI it was another poster who said he did not know who he was. I know him as long time reviewer with the Absolute Sound.

 

Oops, you’re right, it was Crenca. Don’t know how I got you stuck in there. Sorry. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just now, daverich4 said:

 

Oops, you’re right, it was Crenca. Don’t know how I got you stuck in there. Sorry. 

Oh yes, how could anyone mix up @crenca and @Ishmael Slapowitz, their HiFi politics are so different 😁

[Mayfair]

25 minutes ago, crenca said:

 

I find that when they do have the Hi Res of something I am looking for its regular price is at or below HDTracks "sales price"and the others with their never ending sales and email coupon specials.  That, and most of the time they have the 16/44 as well which I sometimes get anyways depending upon the quality of the mastering, etc.

I also find that 7digital sometimes has much better prices and would be sad to see them go out of business.  I only buy above 16/44 if the hi-res mastering is audibly better (e.g. Tom Petty's "Best of Everything" compilation - I found out that the hi-res was mastered much better the expensive way).

[crenca]

2 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Oh yes, how could anyone mix up @crenca and @Ishmael Slapowitz, their HiFi politics are so different 😁

 

Shssssh, I don't want "audiophiles" to clue into the fact that I am a Russian audio bot with 129 different user names...

[Paul R]

9 hours ago, Samuel T Cogley said:

 

I'm well aware of the definition and I think the usage of that word is appropriate to describe your contributions to this thread.  Was that word an odd choice to use next to the word "futility"?  Perhaps.  But your message is clear: protesting MQA is futile and foolish.

 

I don't think that is what is being said at all. Protesting by being insanely stupid is futile, the other side will just win. Putting out facts and targeting the market the other side needs to survive? Smart and effective. 

 

What is difficult about that?  Not as much fun as being a jerk, at least for some of this wannabe-expert-but-not-work-for-it crowd, but far more effective. 

[Archimago]

On 4/16/2019 at 12:06 PM, FredericV said:

 

He just wrote this:

https://audiophilereview.com/audiophile-news/an-audio-test-that-may-or-may-not-prove-something.html

 

where he mentions Archimago's article

 

Nice of him to mention the test :-). Always looking a for a few more entries!!!

[WAM]

Got mail from Bluesound:

 

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What a pity I do not use a Bluesound product anymore ...😎

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

34 minutes ago, WAM said:

Got mail from Bluesound:

 

Experience live music at home like never before.

With nugs.net now available with BluOS, you can browse and listen to over 30,000 hours of live concert recordings from artists like Pearl Jam, Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Beck and dozens more. Hi-Fi subscribers of nugs.net will be able to enjoy their favorite concerts on Bluesound in lossless FLAC, with many of the concerts also encoded and available in MQA^® for the best possible listening experience.

 

What a pity I do not use a Bluesound product anymore ...😎

This his actual a bit of old news regarding nugs.net. Maybe new to Bluesound users. 🤠