To me the possibility to stream hi-res is the main advantage with MQA. You may say that could be done without MQA, but since it's only is going to be offered via MQA, I'm fine with that.
I'm more skeptical to the sonic benefits of older 16 bit material that do not exist in better master than the redbook format. I also understand that there is at least 3 ways to implement MQA on those recordings. (as told on Audiostream) Then we may also apply if the A/D chip is known. So the SQ may not be that much better. I may buy an Explorer2 to verify. (Just have to wait until it actually can decode MQA) Those few hi-res I've purchased from HD-Tracks did sound better than CD to me. So I'm expecting MQA based on hi -res masters to sound better, at least if you have good enough stereo. There is also something called MQA Studio, which I'm not sure how differ from normal MQA, but I guess it is related to recordings done by MQA certified equipment and quality processing. If old recordings can be remastered to MQA studio is also something I don't know. So I would like to understand all the different MQA encoding options better, and if there is planned a way to tell us which process is used. At the moment all I know is different lights for MQA and MQA Studio. When Tidal start with MQA sometime later this year, we may know more, but we will not be told anything before that. It surprises me a bit that Hifi journalists don't ask more technical questions, like those mention. The only good thing they have been able to discover is, if patient you will at some time get SW MQA, and MQA must be adjusted to your DAC chip. Default DAC profiles is not allowed. As we noticed with the Auralic mess. Still I think these different decoder options should be clarified better, and also if it is technical possible to implement in equipment with room correction. And why do we not see any interview with the recording companies? Without their implementation MQA is DOA. Well the did start to make TV without 4K content, so maybe MQA has the same approach :D ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R1200CL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63832 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105070 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
