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MQA....again.

Just received the below article in my Google links:

My

initial gut reaction was something along the lines of "oh for crying out loud, leave it alone, this isn’t needed". They state their mission is to rival Qobuz and Tidal.

I’m not sure there’s enough room in the marketplace, what with Qobuz, Tidal (post-MQA), Spotify, Amazon etc; but who knows. That's without  even getting into the whole MQA debacle

 

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Friendly reminder facts 

 

1. The native sample and bit rate of the mastering session is the best quality that any product could ever be
 

2. MQA is sonically distorted and lossy.  Might be subjectively preferable distortion or might not, but it's definitely distorted.

 

3. MQA is not master quality. (See 1.)  MQA is not authenticated. It's almost always bulk processed. 

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