Stereophile Series on MQA Technology

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For the curious, there's a wonderful talk on MQA right here. It might be a bit too reasonable and hydrogen-audio-ey for the wood-plug usb cable-set, but it's open-minded, structured, methodical, starts at the beginning and the "MQA is vaporware" thread is brought up.

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16 minutes ago, FredericV said:

So ethical to use crypto DRM.

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9113-mqa_-_a_clever_stealth_drm-trojan

and not use "bit freezing" / entropy reduction, compatible with all exsting DAC's:
http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/MQA/cool/bitfreezing.html
https://www.xivero.com/xifeo/

 

MQA oh so fair

 

So elegant as to require the replacement of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of hardware to allow more efficient streaming when the average U.S household can already stream in better quality many times over, with the connections they already have, to gear they already own. 

 

MQA : let's elegantly reduce emissions by promoting coal rolling.

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7 minutes ago, Miska said:

Streaming audio is certainly not an issue.

 

My point exactly... I should've put quotes around "more efficient streaming".