Bob Stuart launches blog to explain MQA

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

4 minutes ago, daverich4 said:

“High resolution is an experience, not a specification …”

 

Wow, just f’king wow.  If you want to ruin your day, read Bob’s Intro To High Resolution. 

Perhaps the biggest pile of steaming horseshit imaginable outside of Fatso's Meuller Report Summary. 

 

Just mind boggling bullshit. 

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

5 minutes ago, One and a half said:

Origami folding really works, (on paper with the hype to boot):

 

Compared to regular PCM, MQA delivers at least 15 times more resolution, with a lower environmental impact (saving up to 80% on storage, cloud and data cost), yet gives the clearest sound direct from the studio, and is effortless for the listener to enjoy.

 

Wow, 15 times, and green energy too, apart from the manufactured hardware that needs to be green compatible. Trust in Bob. This is the line spun to the labels and the likes of Tidal for sure. Horse and dogshit, the lot.

So let us counting the marketing lies:

 

1-MQA delivers "at least" 15x more resolution

 

2-"a lower environmental impact"

 

3-"gives the clearest sound direct from the studio"

 

Stunning. 

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

17 minutes ago, crenca said:

Seriously, Bob Stuart is the L Ron Hubbard of the (digital) audio world.  MQA is like those old commercials where Dianetics is the solution to everything.  P. 123, how to improve your sex life.  P 345, how fix your bicycle.  P. 213, how to attain eternal bliss...

Clearly, Stuart and his minions are the most intellectually dishonest bunch of thugs the audio world has seen. MQA dying a death? Move the goal posts, write a blog post that provides a fantastical distortion or reality. 

 

"There were 3 million people at my inauguration."

 

"No there weren't"

 

"Yes there were. "Cause I said so, fuck you". 

 

LOL

 

 

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

26 minutes ago, Ski Bum said:

"We also changed the game by offering only the pure original and highest quality of a recording with secure confirmation at playback – so the listener has the huge benefit of knowing they have the approved original. MQA: Master Quality Authentication."

 

If only this were true, I'd forgive all the other stuff.

 

 

But none of it is true. A total fabrication, ain't it?😅

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

10 hours ago, ARQuint said:

The MQA-related threads at Audiophile Style remain an invaluable repository of informed opinion. Mr. Nuts (my apologies if it's Dr. Nuts) leaves me grasping for words, such is my awestruck admiration. In the context of his thoughtful posting above, we can contrast the engineering qualifications and relevant professional experience of two industry giants and confidently judge the utility of what each has to say. We are truly blessed to have so many beacons of truth selflessly offering their expertise on AS forums as, miraculously, these considered and authoritative opinions are not routinely celebrated elsewhere.

Bob Stuart                                                                                                       Metal Nuts

Education                                                                  

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and acoustics                           ?    

Masters degree in Operations Research                           

 

Design/Development Career Highlights

First audiophile CD player (1983)                                                                       ?

First DSP-powered loudspeaker (1990)

First digital surround processor (1994)

Meridian Lossless Packing (2000)

MQA (2014)

 

Professional Awards

 

AES Life Fellow                                                                                                       ?

CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Award (2015)

 

 

Actual name

 

J. Robert ("Bob") Stuart                                                                                         ? *

 

* Metal Nuts may not be his real name

In the short time I have been here this is perhaps the most arrogant, smug, and delusional post I have seen yet.

 

Let's examine these big "accomplishments".

 

-"First" Audiophile CD player-100% totally opinion. It was a partially rebuilt Philips that had no remote, took forever to load, and it, you are not even correct it was not introduced until late 1984 or 1985.

 

-Surround? Don't know, never cared, never paid attention

 

-First DSP Loudspeaker-The market soundly rejected this product. End of story.

 

-MLP-Numerous audio engineers rejected it, refusing to use it for a number of technical reasons. James Guthrie of

Pink Floyd fame is one notable. It died a dead for 2 channel audio soon enough when 24 bit downloads hit the market.

 

-MQA-LOL!!!!!!

 

All equalling losses to the tune of FOURTY MILLION shekels. 😂

 

 

 

 

 

 

even

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

9 minutes ago, Samuel T Cogley said:

 

You can call it whatever you like.   But it is demonstrably the polar opposite of consumer advocacy.

yes...with an incredibly smug and passive/aggressive defense against a thinly veiled anti-consumer, elitist attitude. 

[Ishmael Slapowitz]

42 minutes ago, mansr said:

There's multi-channel MQA?

MQA vinyl, MQA CDs, and soon, MQA cassettes, the revival of the MiniDisc format with MQA encoding, and in development MQA FM radio. 🤣