Bob Stuart launches blog to explain MQA

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4 minutes ago, Miska said:

 

Where's the AI? It's not a cool thing if it doesn't include some form of Artificial Intelligence. (what in the past was boringly called statistics and correlation) 

 

 

That's for episode two: "double blind testing, by bleeding-edge AI, has proven that MQA is audibly lossless".

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Summarizing then, high-resolution is an experience, not a specification – the best 100 Mpx camera fails to deliver with a dirty or out-of-focus lens or on a misty day.

 

Ah, thanks Bob. Even with your analogies, you're full of shit.

 

Here's what happens when you have a full-grown fly inside your lens.

 

And here's a misty night. It's by Edward Steichen, and sold for a little bit under $3 million, which is more than any of your shitty companies have made in a decade.

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Those mildly coherent ramblings certainly are clickbait, but some of them are also from the last few days.

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6 minutes ago, ARQuint said:

As a writer

 

At least, you have both the lucidity and decency not to call yourself a journalist, so you've got that going for you.

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24 minutes ago, ARQuint said:

Is it possible to criticize aspects of MQA (as, say, Paul does) without denigrating the man's  previous accomplishments, his motivations, and his honesty?

 

Without going into the technical stuff (which others are way more qualified to do than I am), the aspects of MQA that the technically-sentient have criticised are foundational to the rest.

 

If MQA's technical claims unquestionably checked out, then there wouldn't be a hint that BS is trying to con anyone, and there would be no attacks on his motivations or his honesty.

 

There's a paradox in your thinking though, which is that if BS was proven to be technically incompetent, then one could think that he's just past his prime, and not actively trying to swindle. Him trying to project authority (something that's reinforced by the Meridian fan / old-buddies-from-the-HiFi press crowd) makes things worse, because it makes it more difficult to give him the benefit of the doubt he'd have if he was just a failed businessman - his technical competence is what makes him go from "somewhat slimy" to "full-on mendacious".

 

24 minutes ago, ARQuint said:

And is it possible for an audio magazine to have anything not-negative to say about MQA without every word from every writer in that magazine being deemed worthless?

 

Well, if there hadn't been about a gazillion claims about magical stones and the extraordinary directional capabilities of cryogenically treated wires before that, maybe...

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1 hour ago, Thuaveta said:

Well, if there hadn't been about a gazillion claims about magical stones and the extraordinary directional capabilities of cryogenically treated wires before that, maybe...

 

Oh, but that should be obvious to you, there'd probably be less antagonism towards hifi rag writers if there'd been competent technical reporting on the claims (instead of leaving that to the readership), and if you lot had made real amends, instead of doubling down in defense of the culprit once the technical (un)reality of BS's claims were made public...