JVS Cheerleads an MQA CD..Sis Boom Bah!

[mav52]

5 minutes ago, Brinkman Ship said:

Not only a swipe, but a misinformed one. "I am told"...." , this is  how a "journalist" posts? This is unheard of. He fabricates an MQA market in Japan. Streaming is a disaster in the Japanese music market, aside from YouTube.

 

Spotify, Deezer, etc have spent millions trying to break the market with very little success.

 

No Tidal customers in Japan, no MQA in Japan.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cheriehu/2017/12/14/what-will-it-take-for-streaming-to-grow-in-japan-dispatches-from-tokyo-dance-music-event/#2639af1a5279

 Maybe these listeners in Japan are getting their MQA from e-onkyo music store

"" Japan is the world’s second largest market for recorded music sales worldwide. Music in MQA format is currently available in Japan on the e-onkyo music store, most notably recordings from acclaimed Japanese label UNAMAS and the entire catalogue of ‘Anime’ specialist label Falcom. Indie-oriented digital music service, Ototoy, has plans to offer MQA music later this year, including recordings from the Beagle Kick label. ""

 

And "" http://hiresaudiocentral.com/synthax-japans-rme-premium-recordings-to-release-mqa-music/

[mav52]

Just now, Brinkman Ship said:

Um nice theory, but does not fly:

 

38.4% listened to physical CDs.

27% played their favorite tracks from ripped digital files.

9.7% listened to music downloads.

8.7% listened to online radio.

6% used free streaming platforms.

3.9% paid to stream their tracks.

 

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/09/25/riaj-cd-youtube-report/

 

Just fact checking your statement  and you wrote " no MQA in Japan. " 

 

Which there is some available.

[mav52]

5 minutes ago, Brinkman Ship said:

I meant no "MQA widespread or even, any adoption". JVS claims the Japanese are more "educated" and enthusiastic about MQA.

Its appears the writer went overboard with his statement without any proof of whom these educated people are. . It could be for for all we know , a group of people at RME Premium Recordings which are supposed to release MQA music,. 

[mav52]

13 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

JVS mean 'trained' not 'educated'  You train a dog. That's what they would like us  to be. We aren't. Tough.

How do you know what JVS meant.   this is what he wrote "" "...I would venture a guess that if they put "MQA" on the disc, only in Japan, where I am told that people are far more educated about and interested in MQA..." 

 

His "venture a guess, means to me, he has no clue what he means.

 

And I agree, we are not people that lay down and receive spoon feed journalism like some writers of MQA want us to receive.

[mav52]

18 minutes ago, realhifi said:

I just received this months copies of both Absolute Sound and Stereophile and try as I might I couldn’t see one mention of MQA on either their covers or their contents pages. 

 

Did you intentionally covered up the right corner.  Front cover bottom right  MQA and an article page 51 by Austin

[mav52]

4 minutes ago, John_Atkinson said:

 

He covered up the mailing label, to keep his address private. In addition, the cover of issues mailed to subscribers is somewhat different from those sold on newsstands or via Zinio, to make room for the label area.

 

And to address the confusion evidenced elsewhere in this thread, MQA CDs play normally on a regular CD player, albeit with reduced resolution. But if you feed the 16/44k1 S/PDIF or AES3 datastream from the player's digital output to an MQA-capable DAC, it will be unfolded in the usual way

 

And please note that Jason's name is Serinus, not Sirinus or Serinius.

 

John Atkinson

Editor, Stereophile

 

 

7 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I hope we all missed @realhifi attempt at humor by covering up the MQA stuff. 

Bad attempt at humor

[mav52]

14 minutes ago, realhifi said:

Nope. Mine has a label spot and as yiu can see, no MQA mention. I was merely covering my name and address.

 

 

 

 Just put a smiley face on it and be done and just call it a missed attempt at some early morning humor. .

[mav52]

9 minutes ago, realhifi said:

My whole point in that post (in which I erroneously missed THE article on MQA) was that there was a wealth of information to be found in the major audio publications on Hi-Fi, music and the Hi-Fi industry which absolutely dwarfed any MQA mentions.