MQA Shill Steve Stone Provides a Good Laugh For a Friday...

[MikeyFresh]

1 hour ago, firedog said:

And you wonder why many of us feel the mainstream audio press is “shilling” for MQA? I agree with you that the term probably doesn’t apply according to it’s literal definition. But it often seems as if the shilling is going on, even if no cash is being exchanged.

 

Excellent post, my own sentiments echo this rather exactly.

 

I've got nothing at all against the audiophile magazines, in fact I've very much enjoyed reading them for decades now. It was never unclear to me what they are, or how they run their business.

 

However their current pro-MQA stance and repeated doubling down on this anti-consumer "technology" that is of questionable (at best) efficacy with regard to actual sound quality is simply indefensible.

 

No, this is not in any way an attack on Andrew Quint, and I agree his post is both well worded and well intended while making some solid points. But that can't erase the ugly reality of MQA exposed, nor the audio press' misguided and unwavering support of it.

 

[MikeyFresh]

On 4/26/2018 at 7:39 PM, Rt66indierock said:

innuendo that the tension between forum participants here and the audio press makes it a risky place for your advertising dollars.

 

I remember that same line of BS was espoused here by one Witchdoctor, though his position was rather lacking in any form of subtlety or innuendo.

 

Same ineffective end result however.