DanSmedra wrote: > Of course not. Why would I make that assumption? And why would I even > care?
Because you might want to know if the improvement you hear is because of superior technology, or just better/different source material. > If TIDAL uses a higher-quality archived source to fill out its MQA > streaming library and it produces better fidelity/sound quality to MY > ears on my system, I don't give a rat's a$$ what's happening on the back > end. The reason you might care is because if the difference is due to better (or at least different) source material, you could have gotten the same result even without MQA. > But I can understand why not a few high-end audiophiles might be > emotionally vexed. Over decades, they drop tens of thousands of dollars, > or far more, into esoteric equipment, always tweaking, and an equal > amount of dollars into various hi-res format libraries in hopes of > having the biggest sound phallus with the goal to impress. > > But then along comes Bob Stuart with MQA, and with the tangible > possibility that great studio-quality music could be enjoyed by anyone > with a modest system...well yes, I'm sure that's scary. You make it sound like MQA is some pixie dust (unicorn fart?) that will bless even modest systems with magic properties. I see MQA as a solution to something that might have been an issue 5 years ago, but isn't any more. 'Archimago seems to agree with me.' (http://archimago.blogspot.com/2017/02/comparison-hardware-decoded-mqa-using.html) Anyway, I think this discussion belongs down in the "audiophile" section. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106754 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
