planetgroove wrote: > MQA = Most Questionable Audio Format of all time > > Why does one pack an already highres audio file into another container > with a necessary conversion step (See > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Quality_Authenticated#Codec_description: > "MQA encoding is lossy; it hierarchically compresses the relatively > little energy in the higher frequency bands into data streams that are > embedded in the lower frequency bands using proprietary dithering > techniques.")? That is nothing but nonsense. > MQA was only developed to keep the sole control over the > distribution-channels. Instead of simply selling the original > uncorrupted wav-, flac-, DSD-files etc. which the mastering-facilities > put out, the "inventors" try to establish another proprietary file > format and try to convince the hardware-manufacturers to get the > buzzword out. The manufacturers - at least those uncritical - are > thankful to have the next marketing hype, helping them to make new money > with their next-gen devices. > > It is a disastrous alliance for the quality of music. Even 44.1 kHz/16 > Bit stores all relevant information to get really good sounding results > from your devices. But they not even want to sell these. Because then > there is no reason for a new funky-sounding format to make money of. > > See this also: https://www.linn.co.uk/blog/mqa-is-bad-for-music > > To get more information on why even too high sampling rates are not > necessary: http://lavryengineering.com/pdfs/lavry-sampling-theory.pdf > (Sampling Theory For Digital Audio by Dan Lavry. Lavry Engineering, > Inc.)
that was very interesting information, thank you very much. in this case, this means that TIDAL is not a good option. So at the end what remains? Deezer premium & Qobuz Sublime, that's all? Is Qobuz be the only solution? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jayce996's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59455 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110349
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