Stereophile Series on MQA Technology

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On 12/17/2017 at 11:32 AM, John_Atkinson said:

 

For the record, MQA has never advertised in Stereophile, though they have occasionally done so in The Absolute Sound.

 

John Atkinson

Editor, Stereophile

But MQA partners have. You must think everyone is braindead...well...

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On 12/18/2017 at 4:17 PM, John_Atkinson said:

 

Maybe the word sounds nice to you, I don't have an opinion on that. But MQA's approach to digital audio
data encoding, in theory reducing all the stages between the input of the A/D converter to the output of the D/A converter to a transparent "pipe," was a back-to-first-principles approach that I found elegant in the extreme. YMMV.

 

See https://www.stereophile.com/content/ive-heard-future-streaming-meridians-mqa

 

John Atkinson

Editor, Stereophile

 

Thanks for the laugh. I mean really, a real belly acher...Coming from the guy who was impressed by a $24,000 Boulder CD player because it displayed metadata...and a $300 Squeezebox did the same. 

 

 

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11 minutes ago, GUTB said:

 

You mean the review in which he determined it sounded virtually identical to a $6k Ayre?

 

You're trying too hard making @John_Atkinson into a villain.

You mean the review where claimed the $24,000 CD player was "future proof"? LOL!!!! How'd that work out?

 

"The Boulder 1021 may be very expensive, but it is both superbly engineered and superb-sounding. Its measured performance is at the current state of the art for high-resolution audio performance, and its ability to retrieve, store, and display the metadata for the CDs it plays is addicting. Its future is really guaranteed, however, by its ability to play data discs carrying high-resolution audio files, whether they be ones you've burned yourself from downloads, or commercial discs from companies like Reference Recordings or Fidelio. Yes, playing such files back from your computer is possible, but computer soundcards that can get the most from files sampled at 176.4kHz and 192kHz are few and far between. Boulder's 1021 is highly recommended to those fortunate few with pockets deep enough to be able to afford it."

https://www.stereophile.com/cdplayers/boulder_1021_disc_player/index.html

 

What a farce!

 

Your fanboydom on this forum is really beyond the pale.

 

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11 minutes ago, Ron Scubadiver said:

 

It's not one bit misleading.  MQA promoters are pitching their system as providing significant business efficiencies unavailable with other types of music downloads, but that is clearly an exaggeration.   They are the ones who are engaging in misleading conduct.  MQA isn't any different from iTunes or HD Tracks except the objective is to extract licensing fees from software and hardware vendors and increase download sales by pressuring people to duplicate their existing libraries.

...let's not forget the complete and utter fabrications in their marketing.

 

Marketing lie #1-You are hearing exactly what comes out of the mastering studio. That is quite

a trick with lossy DSP.

 

Marketing lie #2-Artists and producers "authenticate" MQA albums

 

Marketing lie #3-MQA improves fidelity.

 

I am sure others can add to the list.