I didn't think that Stereophile's latest was nearly as orgasmic sounding about MQA as Robert Harley at TAS. If MQA bombs, Harley really ought to leave the business after such shameless shilling.
My take on MQA is that it is a high Res format that allows for more compression than other high Res formats, which rely on tremendous amounts of over sampling , and therefore take up more data space. Streaming companies will love it because they will save bandwidth.
Casual listeners don't care about better sound. Those of us who do care won't be able to hear any superiority from other high resolution formats because the differences will be minor, subjective, and system dependent, like many other Audio Tweaks. Manufacturers will ( are) chafing and being under Meridian's Thumb and will subvert the implementation . It will join SACD as barely hanging on by a thread in the market place, until some wizard behind the booth attempts to get us to repurchase our collections with the latest 'breakthrough '
My take on MQA is that it is a high Res format that allows for more compression than other high Res formats, which rely on tremendous amounts of over sampling , and therefore take up more data space. Streaming companies will love it because they will save bandwidth.
Casual listeners don't care about better sound. Those of us who do care won't be able to hear any superiority from other high resolution formats because the differences will be minor, subjective, and system dependent, like many other Audio Tweaks. Manufacturers will ( are) chafing and being under Meridian's Thumb and will subvert the implementation . It will join SACD as barely hanging on by a thread in the market place, until some wizard behind the booth attempts to get us to repurchase our collections with the latest 'breakthrough '