Tidal MQA Hollowness


Has anyone (or perhaps everyone) noticed that MQA doesn't sound like actual music, but rather a dumbed-down version with all dynamics and angularities smoothed out into a seamless, easily digested pabulum? Anyhow that's my impression after several months' listening and finally listening critically. Seems an analogue of trends in contemporary English usage: students are now taught they needn't learn any of the 788 once-common English prepositions, since "in terms of" can replace them all; that "impact" can replace all 343 once common verbs denoting specific effects of one thing upon another; that "engaged in conduct" can replace any and every sort of doing something in particular; and so forth. 
The sugar-coating of actual recordings seems to me the same as the refusal to call things what they are. Vague abstraction in sound strikes me as very like vague abstraction in language. Whatever may be happening politically, what seems to be happening culturally is the realization of a Brave New [dystopic] World. I'm thinking that while vinyl may crack or pop, it never lies. I know others have the same impression, and just wondering how many.  
hickamore
There is a mono crowd? [Jaw drop here]. Makes sense to me that some good DACs won't mess with MQA. 2LPCM on a good DAC? Not yet. Bricasti?
impression just seemed so lightweight for a lover of some of the “788”....
I have heard a Bricasti on some Magico with Zesto preamp...it was lovely...top end air like a well setup $30 k analog setup...
but not w a 2L recording. Forgive my broken structure, thirty years at a technology centered company....everybody knows w = with... 
Having said that a Brinkmann Nyquist II does support MQA. Helmut has ears and is a great engineer, music lover......maybe, just maybe
Late entrant, steep learning curve, no simple answers. Must be why this enterprise keeps smart people engrossed. Anyhow that's the goal, convenient streaming with analog fidelity.

So MQA is part of the assault on western language, values and civilization?  Interesting, very interesting.
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