ctbarker32 wrote: > From my further reading, I think it is incorrect to describe MQA as a > lossy format as is currently understood e.g. MP3 vs FLAC/ALAC. > > It would appear that MQA is as much to do about audio timing information > as it is about frequency information? I'm thinking along the lines of > Time Aligned Speakers? It doesn't really matter whether it's to do with timing or frequency information. As I read it, the MQA process starts with a hi-res source of some kind, strips out stuff and plonks some meta-data in the LSBs that allow a suitable decoder to reconstruct it. So, just like a sort of "super HDCD" as you say. When it's played on a legacy device without the decoder, stuff is "missing". That's lossy in my book.
ctbarker32 wrote: > Meridian has already announced an MQA aware DAC - The Meridian Explorer > 2 DAC. Quelle surprise. Who'd have thought that selling extra unnecessary hardware might be one of the incentives for Meridian? Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102648 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
