With coast i mean sbscription cost for the MQA service . I do understand that it's hirez streaming with some novel compression ( call it lossy hirez ) that in it itself is piontless as 16/44.1 is good enough for human beings .
Besides that excruciatingly few recordings actually challenge the confines if pedestrian CD . I do understand I have several hundreds of DVDA discs and hires downloads . It's simply the recording quality itself that distinguish a good record from a bad record . The consumer container is irrelevant if it's equal to or better than 16/44.1 . Try to downsample one of your own hires recordings ( do not compare with the CD release ) to 16/44.1 and compare that blind . Yes the CD version and Hirez version can sound different but that's simply because it not the same master it has again nothing to do with if it s 16/44.1 or 24/192 as when a format is good enough for our hearing it does not improve further. What is unique ? you can subscribe to other services with good enough sound quality and most likely a much wider catalog . Do they offer some music we will not otherwise hear from anyone else . If we got discrete multichannel that would have meant something ,that's was the only real improvement DVDA and SACD actually had . It's a marketing exercise the the goal is to get $$$ from audiophiles . We already have the means to get the soundquality and catalog . Is it possible ? technically probably if an API and some specs appear . Legally who knows content provides can be finicky . As squeezebox firmware is not developed these days a server side plugin for LMS that transcodes to all kind of players would probably be "possible" and the way to go as its support all squeezeboxes and does not depend on mysqueezebox.com . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102648 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
