Is this MQA news a big deal?

@ptss

My statement:

2 - DRM prevents copying. MQA does not do this. I can make copies and send them to others. If they have an MQA capable player, it will play at full resolution.

Was specifically about Digital Rights Management, which MQA has nothing to do with. Any MQA file may be copied by any file copy method. Those copies all retain the same qualities of the original MQA file and therefore it is not DRM.

It is closer to "Dolby Surround" in that any stereo can pay back "Dolby Surround" but only Dolby branded decoders will enable the full 4 channel playback. But Dolby Surround does not in anyway prevent copying.

Best,
Erik

@ptss -

1 - MQA plays back on anything. You just don't get the extra ffeatures. 

2 - DRM prevents copying. MQA does not do this. I can make copies and send them to others. If they have an MQA capable player, it will play at full resolution. 

So, this is NOT like HDMI, which prevents copying. 

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E

@jayctoy 

  I heard the MQA it’s really good, I preferred it over DSD. It’s the one that came close to vynil, in the system we were listening...

Curious, what DAC were you using? 

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E

Find that 4k, streaming, and MQA all share a single purpose: copyright control.

I'm no fan of MQA, in that I cannot tell it does anything better, but copyright control (aka Digital Rights Management or DRM) is not one of the problems.

MQA recordings can be encoded to any common format like FLAC or ALAC, and copied like any other computer file. There is no DRM in MQA. None.

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E