MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote!


Vote please. Simply yes or no. Let’s get a handle on our collective thinking.
The discussions are getting nauseating. Intelligent(?) People are claiming that they can remove part of the music (digits), encode the result for transport over the net, then decode (reassemble) the digits remaining after transportation (reduced bits-only the unnecessary ones removed) to provide “Better” sound than the original recording.
If you feel this is truly about “better sound” - vote Yes.
If you feel this is just another effort by those involved to make money by helping the music industry milk it’s collection of music - vote no.
Lets know what we ‘goners’ think.
P.S. imho The “bandwidth” problem this is supposed to ‘help’ with will soon be nonexistent. Then this “process” will be a ‘solution’ to a non existing problem. I think it is truly a tempest in a teacup which a desperate industry would like to milk for all its worth, and forget once they can find a new way to dress the Emporer. Just my .02

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Showing 10 responses by uberwaltz

Right now I am not paying anything extra for MQA. It comes with Tidal which I would subscribe to whether it carried MQA titles or not.
My Bluesound vault2 decodes MQA but that was not what I originally purchased it for so just another bonus.
So imho I am getting MQA for nothing so why the heck would I not listen to it.
Just a huge bonus that it happens to sound better to me in my system.
@roberjerman.

No sonic benefit?
To your ears possibly but you cannot make a broad damning statement like that when others here have stated they can hear a difference.
Not sure as I would go as far to state its a sonic benefit but I like what I hear in my system to my ears.
And that’s as far as you can take it.
EVERYONE will hear differently in their system, room, ears.
There will never be a "winner" in this debate
Agreed that everybody should just listen and "hear" what they desire.
There are many more subjects in the audio world with science a plenty to "prove" that what some hear is not possible.
Let us just leave it at that
@jon2020.

I do not doubt you hear what you hear and that is fine.
But do not get angered or derisive of others who also know what they hear even if it is a polar opposite view/opinion to yours.
@roberjerman.

Have you actually listened to MQA files or are your arguments purely based on reading tech info?
2 years ago I would have said you were nuts if you thought changing a fuse and even the directionality of said fuse would have ANY sq impact. This i was gladly proved wrong over and a believer was made.
The same holds true with MQA, I have read the blurb but I know also what I hear and at the end of the day that is truly all that matters to me in,my system.
@mcgal 

Last count there were approx 5000 MQA titles on Tidal, not a bad start imho
I am not truly comparing
Just adding my 3 cents on what I like the sound of.......
In my system to my ears
Nuff said
So far I have found MQA played via Tidal through my Vault 2 "sounds" more refined and solid than non mqa version.
I have read the technical blurb
I cannot explain why in my system it sounds better....no more so than why I can explain a change in a simple fuse sounds better either.
At this juncture I do NOT CARE!
I will continue to play what sounds better to my ears on my system
Thank you