Where did MQA Neil Young go ?

[Mordikai]

 Neal Young is a clown. Does anyone believe he can tell the difference with his old man rocker ears between 16/44 and 24/192 in his Cadillac?

He's not wrong of course about the record industry putting out shit product.

[Mordikai]

1 hour ago, #Yoda# said:

 

Neil Young is not a clown, he's an artist knowing quite good how different a studio master usually sound compared to a lossy copy and even to most DR messed up mastered Redbook versions and this is not a matter of age. He is no business man and the marketing campaign was designed for average Americans who usually don't care for sound quality at all. For any audiophile it was impertinent, for sure.

 

I suspect that XStream is as dead as the PonoMusic Store because NY is not able to find a potent investor and for the same reason, I think, we will never see a HDtracks streaming service.

 

All existing participants are far away from generating any profit and nobody really can estimate future customers preferences in this very small market for high quality streaming. As an investor, you must be very confident to throw the money down the drain, even if the OraStream technology is much more open, sophisticated and adjustable than MQA as streaming solution for mobile and residential HiFi devices.

 

 

You give him a lot of credit. I've never heard him say anything that gave me a clue that he understood what he was talking about in this regard. I was using the car hi - res thing because that's what he used and I think it's funny.

I don't criticize his business acumen or lack there of. I think it's brave to start a business and put your time energy and reputation on the line. Sometimes businesses fail no disgrace in my mind, my hats off to him that he tried.

 

[Mordikai]

7 minutes ago, #Yoda# said:

 

To be honest, I'm quite disappointed about his decision to close the PonoMusic Store before expanding the download service to the mainland of Europe, maybe with a partial recall of the "PonoPromise" to save the business model and favour, more or less impulsive, a streaming service instead. IMO, the PonoMusic Store was unique source to download some rare albums in redbook FLAC format that are available as CD, if at all, only to extremely upscaled prices. 

In all fairness I was turned off by the sales pitch and never gave it a chance. I also have very little interest in mobile hi-fi so the player never appealed to me.

[Mordikai]

15 minutes ago, PeterSt said:

I wonder what it actually takes for a provider to go bankrupt. Of what these huge investments should be. I mean, I could seriously consider to set up such a service. All it takes is a couple of servers and a bit of bandwidth. And when I need more bandwidth I need more servers. And when that happens I suppose I have more money because of ore subscriptions.

One thing : I don't need to hire 150/hr costing buses of IT personnel because I'd already have the technology and knowledge and manpower.

If I as a provider would go bankrupt it should have to do with the fee for the artists which should not be my part to begin with. 

well how many subscribers does spotify have and still no profit? I'm not sure what kind of business plan shows you making no profits from 1-50,000,000 customers. When does the profitability start, 100,000,000?