The best part about MQA bankruptcy..

MQA is very good from my experience with a MSB DAC.

I have a dCS Bartok (now being upgraded to Apex) and I have the same experience when playing MQA files on Tidal. These DACs, and perhaps some other high end DACs, have been able to deliver excellent SQ from MQA. If you heard MQA over these DACs you might change your mind about its quality.

Erik, love the play on words you used on ’unfolding’.

@cycles2

True credit here goes to @onhwy61 , I just borrowed his idea.

These DACs, and perhaps some other high end DACs, have been able to deliver excellent SQ from MQA. If you heard MQA over these DACs you might change your mind about its quality.

Isn't 95% of the perceived sound quality a result of convincing engineering in the recording - meaning mics, placement room, preamps, conversion and convincing artistic choices in mastering?
The medium or resolution itself is IMO only a limiting factor if you go below cd quality. A better recording "on cd" sounds better than a lesser recording on high-rez.

Regarding MQA: Its point is not compression per se (and/or the unfolding of your pocket) but the integrated view on the whole chain of AD anti-aliasing and DA oversampling filters and the touted control of an optimal resulting impulse response.

The first problem is the black box, the secrecy, intransparency and lack of control around the process.

A second possible problem is the promised phase- & impulse-perfect stitching together of a 22kHz lowpass signal with a 22kHz high pass signal.

I'd like to see also "neutral" comparisons of impulse measurements AD/DA of a complete recording chain, including measurements of dynamically more complex signals. Usually one only sees "filter ringing" provoked by incorrect artificial digital signals on DA. 

The somehow speculative audibility of filter ringing will disappear the higher the sampling rate.

I still find the idea of MQA intriguing and promising - except the ripp-off aspect...

Most of these ignorant replies sound exactly like the audiophool cable naysayers on ANA. How can a $50 cable sound better than my .02 cent cable, must be snake oil. That’s exactly how most of these posts sound. So many wrong posts. The post about having to spend $$$ to get mqa. BS, with a firmware upgrade my last 2 DACs got mqa support. Get a good dac in the beginning that’s fpga based and you won’t be left with old technology. The post about mqa unlistenable. My reply, get new ears or get a good system. I’m sure most of you were also sacd naysayers, just hated to buy sacd discs or have to get a sacd player. Mqa is less invasive than sacd was/is. 

MQA is very good from my experience with a MSB DAC.

this comment came up in a different but related thread

i would concur, mqa content sounds simply lovely on my msb analog dac... but as i said there as well, i would only add that i think this speaks much more about the quality of the msb than about the benefit of mqa...