cdmackay wrote: > I dunno. It sounds like you are saying: "there's a desire to sort things > out, and create useful standards, and that's good. The result was MQA, > which isn't good, but still, the intention was good". Is that what > you're saying? > > I fear that the intention was nothing of the sort. I believe the > intention was nothing more than an attempt to hood-wink people into > spending money on something they don't need, to solve a problem that > doesn't exist, using a mixture of pseudo-science, unscientific tests, > and corrupt mass-media. I don't believe there was any good intention > behind it. > > I would be happy if you were right, though.
Odds are.... MQA is a product of Meridian, who previously had a small but steady flow of income from licensing MLP, which is the standard lossless data compression algorithm for DVD-As. The myth of the efficacy of > CD quality recording has kept Meridian alive since MLP was introduced at the 9th regional AES conference in 1999. They've got a 17 year history of feeding from the so-called high definition audio trough. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105070 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
