uudruid74 wrote: > 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.
I think discussions like this belong in the Audiophiles sections of this forum, not over here. This thread in the MySqueezebox.com subforum should not evolve in a debate of the Nyquist theorem, filters and certainly not MQA and all its controversies. Maybe @mherger can move the entire thread? *Living Room:* RPI2+HifiBerry DAC+ Pro & piCorePlayer *Attic:* RPI2+HifiBerry DAC+ RCA & piCorePlayer *Other rooms:* 6x SB Radio *LMS*: Version 8.2.0 on Xubuntu 21.10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ zordaz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=61726 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115466 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
