MQA = Most Questionable Audio Format of all time Why does one pack an already highres audio file into another container with a necessary conversion step (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Quality_Authenticated#Codec_description: "MQA encoding is lossy; it hierarchically compresses the relatively little energy in the higher frequency bands into data streams that are embedded in the lower frequency bands using proprietary dithering techniques.")? That is nothing but nonsense. MQA was only developed to keep the sole control over the distribution-channels. Instead of simply selling the original uncorrupted wav-, flac-, DSD-files etc. which the mastering-facilities put out, the "inventors" try to establish another proprietary file format and try to convince the hardware-manufacturers to get the buzzword out. The manufacturers - at least those uncritical - are thankful to have the next marketing hype, helping them to make new money with their next-gen devices.
It is a disastrous alliance for the quality of music. Even 44.1 kHz/16 Bit stores all relevant information to get really good sounding results from your devices. But they not even want to sell these. Because then there is no reason for a new funky-sounding format to make money of. See this also: https://www.linn.co.uk/blog/mqa-is-bad-for-music To get more information on why even too high sampling rates are not necessary: http://lavryengineering.com/pdfs/lavry-sampling-theory.pdf (Sampling Theory For Digital Audio by Dan Lavry. Lavry Engineering, Inc.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ planetgroove's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35840 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110349
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