JVS Cheerleads an MQA CD..Sis Boom Bah!

[Spacehound]

1 minute 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.

 

And ass.

 

Was it not in the contents pages you claimed to look at?

[mansr]

1 minute 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.

 

Still bloody disingenuous of you to post this. You know, as do we all, that there are MQA articles in that issue.

[realhifi]

Just now, Spacehound said:

And ass.

 

Was it not in the contents pages you claimed to look at?

My mistake there!  You know, not all of us are conniving and trying desperately to make a point. Some of us are just honest normal folk. 

[realhifi]

1 minute ago, mansr said:

Still bloody disingenuous of you to post this. You know, as do we all, that there are MQA articles in that issue.

? it’s a mistake. I simply don’t have some big agenda as some of you may think. Good lord the paranoia from this site is really hard to ignore. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

10 minutes ago, realhifi said:

I was merely covering my name and address

Completely understandable given some past experiences around here. 

[Spacehound]

8 minutes ago, realhifi said:

)My mistake there!  You know, not all of us are conniving and trying desperately to make a point. Some of us are just honest normal folk. 

Me too. My replies (except for  my very first 'MQA' reply in the magazine),  is  factual, if rather blunt.

 

Even  Wavelength' s 'Chief Scientist', the second to introduce  'asynchonous'  USB, no less,   did not dispute my  reply to him.

[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. .

[realhifi]

1 minute ago, mav52 said:

 

 

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

It was not an attempt at humor. I made an honest mistake about the contents. It would have been a pretty good joke though....?

[Spacehound]

4 minutes ago, realhifi said:

It was not an attempt at humor. I made an honest mistake about the contents. It would have been a pretty good joke though....?

So your post was garbage then?

[realhifi]

4 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

So your post was garbage then?

How many ways should I apologize for missing the pg 51 article in the contents in Stereophile?  As many as the apologies I’ve gotten from people saying I covered up the cover disengeuously?  

[FredericV]

If labels are selling CD's encoded with MQA, without an MQA logo on it, you're not even getting CD quality without an MQA dac.

Any cd-player with SPDIF output will pass the 16 bits bitperfect to an MQA dac, where the MQA dac will see the control data in the 16th bit (LSB bit) and try to reconstruct the lossy highres part with just a few bits borrowed. They get away with this as explained earlier, because the dynamic range of real music is not 16 bits. So the baseband signal is not lossless with MQA cd. There's buried data within redbook, not in the noise floor below redbook as that part is not available with MQA CD. The reason that the control bit signalling the presence of MQA is at the 16th bit, is because MQA expects in some applications that a 24 bit stream is truncated to 16 bits.

So placing it at the 16th bit is a convenient place, compatible with both 24 bits, 24 bits truncated to 16 bits, and MQA CD.

24 bit MQA files have something like 17 bits of actual resolution after MQA decoding.
If only 16 bits are available, I expect the resolution to be far worse, and below CD quality in terms of noise floor and dynamic range, with and without MQA decoder.

Related experiment:

One experiment I intend to do is to truncate 24 bit MQA files to 16 bits, and then send them to my Mytek, and check if the MQA light is active. In the official documentation, they stated that truncating was supported.

Then I can run audiodiffmaker to see the difference between fully decoded MQA from full entropy, vs reduced entropy.

[Spacehound]

17 minutes ago, realhifi said:

How many ways should I apologize for missing the pg 51 article in the contents in Stereophile?  As many as the apologies I’ve gotten from people saying I covered up the cover disengeuously?  

It wasn't true. Only facts matter (if  I find them convenient  )

[mansr]

17 minutes ago, realhifi said:

How many ways should I apologize for missing the pg 51 article in the contents in Stereophile?  As many as the apologies I’ve gotten from people saying I covered up the cover disengeuously?  

I find it hard to believe that you "missed" it when you've been so busy posting in the thread here discussing that very article. I'll accept, however, that you may have been unaware of the news stand cover with an MQA highlight in the corner you covered.

[Spacehound]

4 minutes ago, mansr said:

I find it hard to believe that you "missed" it when you've been so busy posting in the thread here discussing that very article. I'll accept, however, that you may have been unaware of the news stand cover with an MQA highlight in the corner you covered.

"I am   unaware...."  -  any  politician

[realhifi]

3 minutes ago, mansr said:

I find it hard to believe that you "missed" it when you've been so busy posting in the thread here discussing that very article. I'll accept, however, that you may have been unaware of the news stand cover with an MQA highlight in the corner you covered.

Soooooo.......you’re calling me a liar?  

[Spacehound]

8 minutes ago, realhifi said:

Soooooo.......you’re calling me a liar?  

Well you have posted on that very article,

[realhifi]

6 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

Well you have posted on that very article,

I have.  I have read it online and just received the print version of the magazine and to be honest was distracted by other articles in it and (stupidly) missed it in the contents section.  Now, I've said it a number of times so I don't think it needs said again that I flat out missed it.

Your contention isn't that I'm blind for missing it (I somewhat could accept that) but that I am a liar.  That's not cool my friend. 

[Brinkman Ship]

32 minutes ago, realhifi said:

I have.  I have read it online and just received the print version of the magazine and to be honest was distracted by other articles in it and (stupidly) missed it in the contents section.  Now, I've said it a number of times so I don't think it needs said again that I flat out missed it.

Your contention isn't that I'm blind for missing it (I somewhat could accept that) but that I am a liar.  That's not cool my friend. 

Dude, I feel for you...you stepped in a huge pile..and even I must say, these guys were rough, they had their way with you.

 

I can see why you were confused, MQA is part of the fabric of Stereophile now, and you just expect to see a large MQA logo on every cover.

[Spacehound]

18 minutes ago, realhifi said:

I have read it online and just received the print version of the magazine and to be honest was distracted by other articles in it and (stupidly) missed it in the contents section.  Now, I've said it a number of times so I don't think it needs said again that I flat out missed it.

Your contention isn't that I'm blind for missing it (I somewhat could accept that) but that I am a liar.  That's not cool my friend. 

I never said you were anything so you are certainly lying about that. you merely volunteered  a suggestion to mansr, who didn't say anything either. If you want to volunteer stuff, that's  fine with me  

 

Personally I'm getting   somewhat bored with MQA. I genuinely think it will fail of  its own accord.

AFAIK everything Stuart has touched in the last  42 years has.

[realhifi]

19 minutes ago, Brinkman Ship said:

Dude, I feel for you...you stepped in a huge pile..and even I must say, these guys were rough, they had their way with you.

 

I can see why you were confused, MQA is part of the fabric of Stereophile now, and you just expect to see a large MQA logo on every cover.

Lol!  If that's a huge pile then I'm pretty sure I can handle it!  I'm not cool with insinuations that I'm a liar though and I can't imagine anyone on this forum would either.  It's called common decency.

[MikeyFresh]

19 hours ago, Brinkman Ship said:

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.

 

19 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

It's especially not true of Japan, where the physical disc reigns supreme and they are buying thousand dollar glass CDs. 

 

Exactly my thoughts, that is a JVS fantasy/dream sequence of some sort.

 

He picked a very bad example in using Japan as the supposedly more educated and interested in MQA market, I'd venture it's really quite the opposite.

[Spacehound]

Just now, realhifi said:

Lol!  If that's a huge pile then I'm pretty sure I can handle it!  I'm not cool with insinuations that I'm a liar though and I can't imagine anyone on this forum would either.  It's called common decency.

So you've reduced it to 'insinuations' now? That's a start.

 

Perhaps  you will get to "I  myself insinuated  I was a liar" soon rather than throw 'threats' about "anyone else on this forum" around.

[Spacehound]

1 minute ago, MikeyFresh said:

 

 

Exactly my thoughts, that is a JVS fantasy/dream sequence of some sort.

 

He picked a very bad example in using Japan as the supposedly more educated and interested in MQA market, I'd venture it's really quite the opposite.

It's not education, it's training. There a BIG difference.

 

A 'technically'  educated person wouldn't touch MQA with a bargepole.

[realhifi]

1 minute ago, Spacehound said:

So you've reduced it to 'insinuations' now? That's a start.

 

Perhaps  you will get to "I  myself insinuated  I was a liar" soon rather than throw 'threats' about "anyone else on this forum" around.

No, I think I'll stick with what people wrote.  As far as threats, I hardly see my comment as a threat. 

[Brinkman Ship]

17 minutes ago, realhifi said:

Lol!  If that's a huge pile then I'm pretty sure I can handle it!  I'm not cool with insinuations that I'm a liar though and I can't imagine anyone on this forum would either.  It's called common decency.

Understood, I actually think you posted without thinking. I don't think you were lying.