MQA is Vaporware

[The Computer Audiophile]

38 minutes ago, StreamHiRes said:

You are misinforming the public with unsubstantiated claims of MQA authentication indicators being a marketing ploy. Show me a file that is not MQA, but can somehow mysteriously indicate it is authentic. This site seems to be for few critics of MQA, and that’s fine. It’s good to vent. I’d much rather believe  Bob Ludwig than some critical anonymous people online.

 

 

 

15 minutes ago, StreamHiRes said:

Bob Ludwig; One of the most renowned recording engineers in the world,  means nothing to you? Oh my😲. You must be one of those who listen with a calculator.

 

Learn a little something about Bob Ludwig 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ludwig

 

You clearly don’t know him personally and have never talked to anyone who wanted him to say something nice about their product. I could have Bob Ludwig approved strawberries tomorrow if I wanted. Nothing wrong with that but one should understand the value of an endorsement before touting its significant. 

[StreamHiRes]

2 minutes ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

Guys, don't get bent out of shape. We clearly have a new troll sent over to ruffle feathers. Ignore.

 

This new troll is either a recycled shill clown from the MQA Zombie Army, or a new shill clown. Very possibly a dealer,

or distributor, who aside from the audio press, are the most shameless.

None of the above. It just amuses me how “bent out of shape” people can become over a music format.

😂

 

Music enthusiasm is dead! It’s all about arguing and bickering instead of enjoying any better than MP3 format presented to us. With attitudes like that, the entire audiophile hobby will continue it’s inevitable slow death. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

5 minutes ago, Sal1950 said:

That's a pretty strong statement for a little piece of lossy compression software and some great marketing/sales BS. Better be 100% positive before you let the con-artists lock up your music in the latest ingenius form of DRM. Its not copy protection this time, the endgame is just to deny you access to the original master file in the first place.  

You’re right and MQA Ltd has even said so when promoting it to labels. 

[kumakuma]

11 minutes ago, mansr said:

Or Brinkman Ship.

 

My money is on Lee's Scrotum.

[The Computer Audiophile]

3 minutes ago, StreamHiRes said:

None of the above. It just amuses me how “bent out of shape” people can become over a music format.

😂

 

Music enthusiasm is dead! It’s all about arguing and bickering instead of enjoying any better than MP3 format presented to us. With attitudes like that, the entire audiophile hobby will continue it’s inevitable slow death. 

You’re arguing that by removing content from a lossless file it somehow becomes better. Do you realize this?

[rickca]

51 minutes ago, StreamHiRes said:

I’d much rather believe  Bob Ludwig than some critical anonymous people online.

The MQA Facebook group needs some new talking points.  This is a replay of exactly the same ingenuous, obtuse crap we've seen many times before.  Get a new coach over there.  

[StreamHiRes]

1 minute ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

You’re arguing that by removing content from a lossless file it somehow becomes better. Do you realize this?

Chris I’m not going to crap on your anti MQA site any more. You guys enjoy your misery. I’ve heard all the defamation I needed to hear from this site. I’m done here. Screenshots, Unsubscribe ! Bye Bye

[Ralf11]

 

[firedog]

The only question that remains is whether StreamHiRes is one of the former trolls who’s setup another username, or a new troll sent by the fanboy club.

[The Computer Audiophile]

27 minutes ago, StreamHiRes said:

Chris I’m not going to crap on your anti MQA site any more. You guys enjoy your misery. I’ve heard all the defamation I needed to hear from this site. I’m done here. Screenshots, Unsubscribe ! Bye Bye

Too funny. 

 

Ive asked many engineers and put out a call to any engineer to back the claims of MQA. Nobody can do it because the claims don’t hold water. Seriously. Think about that. The equipment you use right now was designed by someone who thinks MQA is a scam and it was only implemented in your equipment so consumers could check that box on the spec sheet. 

 

How do I know what equipment you use? I don’t. It doesn’t matter. All engineers think the same thing about MQA. 

[John_Atkinson]

1 hour ago, firedog said:

The whole “temporal blurring״ thing another MQA lie.

 

See David Blackmer's article at http://recordinghacks.com/articles/the-world-beyond-20khz/?fbclid=IwAR1qwk0hX17D2l9ADbl-40Ggcba1Be_MAEJsWICZiCulP30hq4HCi0nAllU

 

John Atkinson

Technical Editor, Stereophile

 

[jabbr]

Nice article. Ok so let’s stream 24/96, I don’t need no proprietary sh*t I’m my DAC.

[alfe]

16 minutes ago, jabbr said:

Nice article. Ok so let’s stream 24/96, I don’t need no proprietary sh*t I’m my DAC.

Hi Jon,

Streaming 16/44,1 is fine for me, bad luck my parents are just human.😉

[firedog]

17 minutes ago, John_Atkinson said:

 

See David Blackmer's article at http://recordinghacks.com/articles/the-world-beyond-20khz/?fbclid=IwAR1qwk0hX17D2l9ADbl-40Ggcba1Be_MAEJsWICZiCulP30hq4HCi0nAllU

 

John Atkinson

Technical Editor, Stereophile

 

It’s a nice article. Could be correct, but lots of opinion, assumption, etc. 

The MQA “temporal blurring” claim is a lie b/c of how they describe it and supposedly define it - which they don’t really do. 
In addition, since their filters are a few standard ones that have no specific direct connection to how the music was actually recorded or any special relationship to the particular DAC being being used for playback (in most cases) the claim that they are fixing the original errors in ADC and DAC function is a lie. It’s just another upsampling and filtering scheme. Nothing really special about it. 
It’s even been shown that MQA filters can increase timing, ringing, or blurring errors -  or whatever you choose to call it.  So tell me again how they are fixing “temporal blurring”, please. 

[botrytis]

47 minutes ago, John_Atkinson said:

 

See David Blackmer's article at http://recordinghacks.com/articles/the-world-beyond-20khz/?fbclid=IwAR1qwk0hX17D2l9ADbl-40Ggcba1Be_MAEJsWICZiCulP30hq4HCi0nAllU

 

John Atkinson

Technical Editor, Stereophile

 

 

Again it is HIS opinion. There is no data to back up his claims. 

 

[jabbr]

33 minutes ago, alfe said:

Hi Jon,

Streaming 16/44,1 is fine for me, bad luck my parents are just human.😉

 

If the user manual that came with *your* parents say so! 😂

 

I’m happy for FLAC compression regardless ... now just imagine if lossy compression were built into hard drives so they could say they stored 64Tb of only the data that you actually need! 😂

 

In all seriousness I’m in favor of doubling the resolution of what you’ve proven you need ... 

[ShawnC]

Who chooses a profile name like StreamHiRes, then promotes MQA as HiRes. Oxymoronish, I'd say.

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

3 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

 

That did not take long....I hope the door did not smack in the tuchus on the way out.

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

Screenshots? LOL. What is that all about. Oh well, won't take long before the shill clown pops up on some other forum and reports back about the big bad anti MQA folks. We should know who that clown was sooner than later.

 

They are really down to the B and C level players now lol.

[Hugo9000]

45 minutes ago, Ishmael Slapowitz said:

Screenshots? LOL. What is that all about. Oh well, won't take long before the shill clown pops up on some other forum and reports back about the big bad anti MQA folks. We should know who that clown was sooner than later.

 

They are really down to the B and C level players now lol.

Screenshots to prove that he tried to sell his bs here lol.

 

It's kind of like the door-to-door salesmen who ask for your business card after they stop by YOUR workplace, so they can prove to their boss that they visited you to offer their marvelous services/product you can't live without wasted your valuable time.  One time I asked "If your own boss doesn't trust you to be honest about your daily sales visits, why should we trust you enough to buy your product?"  After laughing at the look on the poor fellow's face, my boss gently scolded me for being needlessly cruel.  lol    

[jabbr]

6 hours ago, StreamHiRes said:

You don’t hear an improvement over redbook? I can instantly  differentiate 16bit CD quality from 24bit MQA on Tidal. I instantly reach for the mouse and search for the next MQA track.😁

 

You know I use Spotify for casual listening and to check out new material. If I find something I really like I buy it in as high resolution as is offered. That’s a much better way to support artists and make a real market for artists creating high res material. The artists get screwed by streaming including high res streaming. MQA is bad for artists in this way — those of us who have kilobucks to spend on cables (not that I would ever!) should put that money toward tickets to live concerts and purchasing high res downloads. My opinion. That’s what’s best for the audiophile ecology.

[Rt66indierock]

Congratulations on the successful shill hunt this weekend. I want to get in a few shots myself but I had a busy weekend.

Attended the AZ AV Club show Saturday. I met many nice people.

Invited to join the local Miata club (I drive a turbo Maita)

Played golf and holed a shot from the fairway for an eagle. 

Encountered a large coyote.

Spent time in the pool to beat the heat.

 

 

[Allan F]

20 hours ago, StreamHiRes said:

Chris I’m not going to crap on your anti MQA site any more. You guys enjoy your misery. I’ve heard all the defamation I needed to hear from this site. I’m done here. Screenshots, Unsubscribe ! Bye Bye

 

Adieu et Bon Voyage!

[Rt66indierock]

HDtracks.com is suing 7digital for failure to deliver services.  Remember the HDtracks press about an MQA streaming service in early June of 2017?  HDtracks.com filed this lawsuit in June of 2018.  The backstory of this is probably fascinating but this is why I wanted Lee S off this site. HDtracks Streaming was never coming  powered by 7digital and Lee has enough contacts with the Chesky's to know this.

 

Sources are 7digital's 2018 financial statements released today and PaceMonitor.

[FredericV]

22 hours ago, StreamHiRes said:

Really? Someone actually went through generating an entire computer code to apparently hack MQA authenticity. Wow! That’s pretty darn serious.

Maybe you should read the topic to learn we did not hack MQA Maybe you learn something