The interesting part is how they at tidal are going to run the MQA encapsulating process on everything in their catalog and especially how and why it works on on existing 16/44.1 masters ? MQA's own site is mostly sales blurb.
The hydrogen audio tread is a bit more revealing on how it actually works . But afaik to get the special MQA data to add to the file , you get that from a Hirez original master with a special process . It will "work" with an original from for example 2L then tidal can have this MQA fle and it given the rigth DAC unpacks with some >20khz information and the DAC can choose its most suitable filter algorithm etc audiophile blizz in progress . I'm not convinced it applys to the majority of tidal files and if they do some processing to make them different it would make me even more sceptical ;) the best thing you can do with an existing 16/44.1 master is to play it as it is . In there are plenty of file formats to,choose from . So tidal will be able to stream some select music from audiophile labels with "better than cd quality" the rest is like it is today . But can this be embedded in a normal flac or wav file or is it going to be a special file format ? If it's a new file format to it can be tricky for squeezebox to support this . Not only for squeezeboxes btw every endpoint needs some MQA license , now I see brilliant money grab here.... My pow hardware manufacturers should resist this and let it die like 8 track or any other obsolete format . It only applies to a tiny amount of source material to begin with . And it don't really apply as Hirez is not at all necessary to begin with . MQA marketing is a bit deceptive , breakthrough in sampling theorem temporal blur ? The same FUD as ever , basically the audio myth that 16/44.1 don't preserver timing better than 1/44.1kHz but more cleverly disguised . But it's a marketing exercise we will see what's comes out of it . There are to many backers already it worries me , but they are mostly hifi brands that sees an opurtunity -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102648 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
