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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.

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2 minutes ago, Tintinabulum said:

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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5 hours ago, lucretius said:

 

Yes.  But I wondering why 2L even bothers to MQA 24/352.8 files.

Apparently because they decided they like the sound of it, and agree that it gives 8X sound in a 2X package. 

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49 minutes ago, mansr said:

I wonder why they even bother recording in anything above 96 kHz. There's nothing but noise at those high frequencies.

I suppose it's the modern capitalist ideal of ever increasing market share at the expense of your competitors and of your customers. 

 

If you want to sell something to somebody who already has one it needs to be "better", and it's been proven many times that your average bear firmly believes that 24/192 is quite obviously better than 24/96. 

 

It's a bigger number, see?  It goes to 11.

 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, mansr said:

I wonder why they even bother recording in anything above 96 kHz. There's nothing but noise at those high frequencies.


This is probably why MQA gets away with their fake 24/192 upsampled output (and anything above 24/88.2 or 24/96), internally it's  17/88.2 or 17/96.

17/96 is probably enough for most music content, and in the ultrasonics you don't need even 17 bits of resolution. You can get away with 8 bits after band splitting and normalizing the ultrasonics and store those with 8 bits of resolution, and at playback, attenuate it back.

MQA debunks the need for those very high samplerates.

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16 hours ago, Tintinabulum said:

 

Challenge rejected then.

 

 

What challenge and to whom? Cryptic posts like this mean nothing. 

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35 minutes ago, FredericV said:


This is probably why MQA gets away with their fake 24/192 upsampled output (and anything above 24/88.2 or 24/96), internally it's  17/88.2 or 17/96.

17/96 is probably enough for most music content, and in the ultrasonics you don't need even 17 bits of resolution. You can get away with 8 bits after band splitting and normalizing the ultrasonics and store those with 8 bits of resolution, and at playback, attenuate it back.

MQA debunks the need for those very high samplerates.

 

No, it is because audiophiles read that MQA is good and trust the Audiophile press as an 'informed' source, like reading any of the car magazines to buy a car. The difference is, the car magazines tell you when they are waxing poetic and the audiophile press do it in the middle of testing (sometimes with no testing at all like with MQA but they test high res files) and never say, this is 'MY OPINION'. They post everything as fact (like Fox News does). This is the issue.

 

Once a person's mind is made up, it is very hard to change it. Very few people make their minds up by looking for facts, they make it by using 'trusted' sources and other's opinions. Well, the audiophile should not be trusted.

 

As I have said in the past, I have listened to recent LP's in both MQA and non-MQA versions, that I know only had one master (like Melody Gardot's - Lie in Europe). This showed me the damage MQA can do to the overall sound of an LP. 

 

MQA adds noise to a file that was never there before so how can that be good?

 

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10 minutes ago, botrytis said:

Once a person's mind is made up, it is very hard to change it. Very few people make their minds up by looking for facts, they make it by using 'trusted' sources and other's opinions. Well, the audiophile should not be trusted.

 

It seems the MQA discussion also has the following:

 

Buy Meridian

Think Bob Stewart is god.

Read MQA isn't all that Bob says it is, simply refuse to believe it.

Must attach all posters against MQA and fight to death in Bob's honor even when Bob knows better than try to defend his own $invention$ in a technical discussion.

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