psjug Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 15 hours ago, christopher3393 said: Many of you no doubt caught the " SiriusXM + Pandora Present Lady Gaga At The Apollo" show the other day celebrating the merging of the two companies. At one point Gaga quipped, "“Did you all hear that Sirius XM and Pandora are uniting? That’s fucking hot. I wonder what kind of sex they’re gonna have?" Food for thought. So horrible-sounding Sirius has acquired Pandora (currently 192kbps for premium service). And MQA is hoping to hitch themselves to this. Sounds like we can expect another dumbed down version of MQA, something with worse than MQA-CD quality. Link to comment
Popular Post mansr Posted June 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2019 36 minutes ago, mav52 said: This one " almost every DVD and BluRay video out there has audio processed with Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP ", pretty much true Of 14 Bluray discs on my shelf, only one has Dolby TrueHD audio. That hardly qualifies as "almost every." esldude and MikeyFresh 1 1 Link to comment
Popular Post The Computer Audiophile Posted June 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2019 So is it official that choice has now been taken away from us as consumers? The company (MQA Ltd) that said it was all about choice and giving consumers the option, then said they it had no control over how its technology is used, just put a dagger in the hearts of many of its defenders. I think pretty much all the MQA fans who defended it for years here always said there was no evidence that our choice to stream pure PCM will be removed. Well, I just tried to play the non-MQA version of The Black Keys new album Let's Rock and if using Roon there is no way to stream a non-MQA version from TIdal. I even went into the Tidal app, changed my settings to HiFi (not Master) and favorited the album as a hail mary to see if I could get the pure PCM version and it was a no-go. Thankfully Qobuz still offers pure PCM. Sonicularity, crenca, christopher3393 and 4 others 2 1 4 Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
Popular Post MikeyFresh Posted June 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2019 2 hours ago, mav52 said: This one " almost every DVD and BluRay video out there has audio processed with Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP ", pretty much true https://www.revolvy.com/page/Meridian-Lossless-Packing Sorry, but that's not pretty much true. Right there in the very link you posted, and as well pointed out yesterday by both @alfe and me too, DVD-Video does not contain "audio processed with MLP". Seeing as DVD-Video accounts for 99%+ of the prerecorded DVDs ever produced, and DVD-Audio is only a fraction of a percent of the total DVDs ever produced, Paul's statement is incorrect (as was his assertion that Blu-ray discs contain DSD). esldude, Currawong and Ishmael Slapowitz 3 Boycott HDtracks Boycott Lenbrook Boycott Warner Music Group Link to comment
The Computer Audiophile Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 DVD talk = off topic. mav52 1 Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
psjug Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 29 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said: Thankfully Qobuz still offers pure PCM. And Deezer too, at least for now. The Computer Audiophile 1 Link to comment
Ishmael Slapowitz Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 43 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said: So is it official that choice has now been taken away from us as consumers? The company (MQA Ltd) that said it was all about choice and giving consumers the option, then said they it had no control over how its technology is used, just put a dagger in the hearts of many of its defenders. I think pretty much all the MQA fans who defended it for years here always said there was no evidence that our choice to stream pure PCM will be removed. Well, I just tried to play the non-MQA version of The Black Keys new album Let's Rock and if using Roon there is no way to stream a non-MQA version from TIdal. I even went into the Tidal app, changed my settings to HiFi (not Master) and favorited the album as a hail mary to see if I could get the pure PCM version and it was a no-go. Thankfully Qobuz still offers pure PCM. Honestly, did we think it was going to turn out any other way?🙄 Thuaveta 1 Link to comment
Ishmael Slapowitz Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 For our friend @Rt66indierock Why Hi-Res Audio Doesn’t Actually Offer a Higher Quality Sonic Experience We can blame the iPod and its signature earbuds for this demise https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/why-hi-res-audio-doesnt-actually-offer-a-higher-quality-sonic-experience/ mav52 1 Link to comment
Popular Post The Computer Audiophile Posted June 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2019 7 minutes ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said: Honestly, did we think it was going to turn out any other way?🙄 Sadly no. RIP Pure PCM through Roon via Tidal. Rt66indierock and Ishmael Slapowitz 1 1 Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
Ishmael Slapowitz Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 9 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said: Sadly no. RIP Pure PCM through Roon via Tidal. Very sad indeed. Link to comment
Popular Post new_media Posted June 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2019 The ONLY reason I am still a TIDAL subscriber is because I'm a Third Man Vault member, so I get it for $5 a month. Not sure it's worth that anymore. I bought that Black Keys album in hi-res from 7digital. I am personally trying to keep them afloat. Ishmael Slapowitz and The Computer Audiophile 2 Link to comment
rando Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 4 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said: The Black Keys new album Let's Rock and if using Roon there is no way to stream a non-MQA version from TIdal. So your issue is with Tidal, who still streams the PCM version, or Roon, who does not stream the PCM version of this album as of this morning? Sample size of one, maybe. Long term change, maybe. A fluke that means nothing, again maybe. I'd hardly call what you presented conclusive evidence, but you along any other member are free to vent their frustrations. Link to comment
The Computer Audiophile Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 Just now, rando said: So your issue is with Tidal, who still streams the PCM version, or Roon, who does not stream the PCM version of this album as of this morning? Sample size of one, maybe. Long term change, maybe. A fluke that means nothing, again maybe. I'd hardly call what you presented conclusive evidence, but you along any other member are free to vent their frustrations. Um, OK. I've done much more looking into it. Perhaps your jump to a conclusion based on the sample size of one (me) was too quick. My issue is with both Tidal and Roon. Tidal may be streaming only MQA even when CD quality is selected in its app, and Roon maybe only presenting MQA to users through its interface. There is no transparency here. It takes digging around to find out what's going on. MikeyFresh 1 Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
Popular Post Rt66indierock Posted June 28, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2019 3 hours ago, psjug said: And Deezer too, at least for now. Deezer is an MQA licensee but has never offered it to consumers. Probably because none of their customers care. MikeyFresh and The Computer Audiophile 1 1 Link to comment
Rt66indierock Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share Posted June 28, 2019 2 hours ago, new_media said: I bought that Black Keys album in hi-res from 7digital. I am personally trying to keep them afloat. Good luck with that. 7digital needs an investor with about 5 million pounds next month. Link to comment
rando Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 16 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said: Perhaps your jump to a conclusion based on the sample size of one (me) was too quick. Truly hilarious. Of course this was a personal attack on my part. By no reasonable means of interpretation could the "sample size of one" refer to the album. What really tickles me about this is the response to being questioned. Impersonally, with the door wide open to further investigation without insulting or demanding. Now my daddy always reminded me pointing a finger at someone points three back at you. So I'm going to politely suggest a reexamination of your post I was replying to for signs of jumping to conclusions. ☝ Edit: By no means was there any intent to develop internal strife. Let's see how this pans out and then revisit if anyone came to hasty or unfair conclusions. Link to comment
Paul R Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 5 hours ago, mansr said: Of 14 Bluray discs on my shelf, only one has Dolby TrueHD audio. That hardly qualifies as "almost every." Um - I hardly think that 14 BluRay discs is representative, however - if your disc are encoded with DTS Master HD then a similar argument applies. Not exactly the same, since DTS of any variety can be lossy, but still applies since it sends higher than 48k audio. Also, you will probably find uncompressed LPCM on those blu-Ray discs. -Paul Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat DAC. Robert A. Heinlein Link to comment
Rt66indierock Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share Posted June 28, 2019 3 hours ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said: For our friend @Rt66indierock Why Hi-Res Audio Doesn’t Actually Offer a Higher Quality Sonic Experience We can blame the iPod and its signature earbuds for this demise https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/why-hi-res-audio-doesnt-actually-offer-a-higher-quality-sonic-experience/ Well I agree with him that the vast majority of people don't listen in environments where even CD quality matters. But I disagree with him that in a quiet environment like my office at night the difference between mp3/AAC and a high resolution file is huge and demonstrable. It isn't with well recorded material like John Atkinson's Portland State Chamber Choir recordings. Ishmael Slapowitz 1 Link to comment
The Computer Audiophile Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 12 minutes ago, rando said: Truly hilarious. Of course this was a personal attack on my part. By no reasonable means of interpretation could the "sample size of one" refer to the album. What really tickles me about this is the response to being questioned. Impersonally, with the door wide open to further investigation without insulting or demanding. Now my daddy always reminded me pointing a finger at someone points three back at you. So I'm going to politely suggest a reexamination of your post I was replying to for signs of jumping to conclusions. ☝ Edit: By no means was there any intent to develop internal strife. Let's see how this pans out and then revisit if anyone came to hasty or unfair conclusions. I don't take this stuff too serious. It's HiFi, not brain surgery. Ishmael Slapowitz 1 Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
Popular Post The Computer Audiophile Posted June 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2019 16 minutes ago, rando said: By no means was there any intent to develop internal strife. Let's see how this pans out and then revisit if anyone came to hasty or unfair conclusions. Please try to stream the pure PCM version of these albums in Roon. It isn't possible. The Black Keys - Let's Rock Beyonce - Homecoming The Live Album The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger Dawnbreaker - Daughter of Swords Doobie Brother - Live from the Beacon Theater Foy Vance - From Muscle Shoals Gucci Mane - Delusions of Grandeur MikeyFresh and crenca 1 1 Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
The Computer Audiophile Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 Looks like the Tidal app streams the CD quality pure PCM when HiFi is selected, but only via the Tidal app. I captured some of one track if anyone wants to examine.. HiFi-passthrough.flac Master-Decoded-by-Tidal-app.flac Master-passthrough.flac Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
Popular Post new_media Posted June 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2019 4 hours ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said: For our friend @Rt66indierock Why Hi-Res Audio Doesn’t Actually Offer a Higher Quality Sonic Experience We can blame the iPod and its signature earbuds for this demise https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/why-hi-res-audio-doesnt-actually-offer-a-higher-quality-sonic-experience/ This article basically says that hi-res audio actually does offer a higher quality sonic experience, you just need the right system and room to appreciate it, so the title is very misleading. I don't understand why Apple gets all the credit/blame for music being portable. I was listening to music on a Sony cassette Walkman with Sony earbuds in 1986; probably worse sound quality than the iPod. Ishmael Slapowitz and The Computer Audiophile 2 Link to comment
The Computer Audiophile Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 7 minutes ago, new_media said: I don't understand why Apple gets all the credit/blame for music being portable. I was listening to music on a Sony cassette Walkman with Sony earbuds in 1986; probably worse sound quality than the iPod. Well said. Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
Rt66indierock Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share Posted June 28, 2019 10 minutes ago, new_media said: This article basically says that hi-res audio actually does offer a higher quality sonic experience, you just need the right system and room to appreciate it, so the title is very misleading. Shelly Palmer is wrong about the hi-res sonic experience. It takes a lot training (think years) and very quiet amplifier to even have a chance to hear a difference. Link to comment
Rt66indierock Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share Posted June 28, 2019 48 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said: Please try to stream the pure PCM version of these albums in Roon. It isn't possible. The Black Keys - Let's Rock Beyonce - Homecoming The Live Album The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger Dawnbreaker - Daughter of Swords Doobie Brother - Live from the Beacon Theater Foy Vance - From Muscle Shoals Gucci Mane - Delusions of Grandeur Since I'm going to an audio show tomorrow, I like to lead off with a good audio conspiracy and Roon is forcing you to listen to MQA tracks is a good one. Fortunately Rhino is not promoting MQA versions of Live from the Beacon Theater on their site. Link to comment
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