Mqa yet again at S-phile

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It appears as expected.  All I can see is JA is telling what he was told or heard, some from BS and laid down an escape route which to me mean "I was told and I relay the information, don't blame me on the misrepresentation or wrong information!"

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Here is a quote from the article

 

"To fully grasp the extent of the problem, audiophiles need to look at the big picture. First, a healthy music industry is important. As Spencer Chrislu, MQA's director of content services, told me in an interview in 2016, "It's important . . . to protect the interests of studios. If a studio does their archive at 24-bit/192kHz and then uses that same file as something to sell on a hi-rez site, that is basically giving away the crown jewels upon which their entire business is based." The metaphor seems mostly apt, although crown jewels have the profound advantage of being physical objects; they can't be given away and still owned. Plus, jewels are harder to alter than a music file.

 

Another big-picture item: Audiophiles need to recognize that we're a small minority among music consumers. When have our interests and opinions influenced any high-level decision in the music industry?"

 

My understanding of what the article said is that the utmost importance is a healthy music industry and the audiophiles being minority of music consumers should submit their interest to the majority.  Without MQA (DRM), the music industry cannot control the give away of the crown jewel to the majority. 

 

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It is funny that if MQA is even better than the Masters as it claimed, who needs high rez file from the music studio and there is no more crown jewel they retain and protect.  The crown jewels have become MQA's.  Then why they believe that they are better off with MQA if MQA has no DRM.

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1 hour ago, Miska said:

I don't have time to read Head-Fi though. But I have friends who use headphones a lot and have high-end headphone systems and who also hang around at Head-Fi. In addition, I know there are lot of serious headphone listeners in Asia region

 

Yes, there are a lot of youngsters in my place who wear headphone/earphone all the time, some used it for listening music, some used it as a head band (LOL).  The headphone/earphone they used are expensive ones and some can change the cable as well.  Of course, some are serious listeners who use it when it is late at night.  (most of us live in apartment/flat with our neighbours on the other side of the wall)

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2 hours ago, Miska said:

 

I don't understand this whole crown jewels stuff. IMO, they should be selling new recordings, and not the same old stuff over and over again... If they cannot make any new recordings to sell, they really need to look into mirror...

 

I agree with you. It is ridiculous that a healthy music industry will just repeatedly issue and reissue old good recordings instead of producing good new recordings. 

 

Is the art of good recording lost and they can no longer produce crown jewel anymore?  IMHO, this cannot be a healthy music industry.