jimwillsher wrote: > Exactly. > > All we want to do is see the Mona Lisa in her original colours, and not > the photo that we've been seeing and which has the slightly altered > colours. I completely agree. That is why we want lossless, FLAC, > unaltered from the original. We want the original, as it was created, by > the person who created it. > > We don't want somebody to say "we think Mona Lisa's hair was meant to be > brown, the artist chose the wrong paint, even though it looked black on > the photo", and in the same way we don't want Tidal to say "you can't > quite hear the drums very well, and we're sure Coldplay wanted you to > hear them, so here you go, we've made them louder for you".
You are assuming that the FLAC has captured the analog recording perfectly. That is not a given. One simple example is aliasing. High order filters are needed to prevent high frequency content from aliasing into the audible band. Such filters generally cause phase shifts in the higher frequencies which means that you harmonics are shifted in relation to the fundamental - that's distortion. Back to your example. MQA cant make the drums louder. A remix/remaster can. If you are hearing some instruments louder than in the flac its possible that the harmonics are now reinforcing the fundamental rather than smearing it. This is why tube amps sound louder - even order harmonics tend to reinforce the fundamental and make it sound louder. So, I would say we have something going on with the harmonics which is in line with what MQA is supposed to do. In either case. Altering the volume a tiny bit kills MQA, making it really easy to A/B MQA vs non-MQA while the song plays. It sounds damn good in MQA. Odd that people often pick a TV with the best video processing because it can make it look so much better. But for audio, everyone wants hands off! I think this is because audio processing was so bad in the past. I dont hear any negatives when I listen to MQA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ uudruid74's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=72371 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115466 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
