The MQA debate is finally over

MQA used the best scammers.

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It's worthy of note that few have come forward here to champion MQA as a superior format unlike those chumps over at Stereophile, TAS and the dealer owner of Audioshark.

Hardware companies will now stop touting their dacs with MQA decoders.  Lol.

You are describing my exact experiences with quad DSD vs PCM (24/96 and greater).

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Here we go. I remember hardware companies refused to sign up for MQA licensing simply because they had to hardwire an increase in volume for the decode process. And that’s the difference folks are hearing. I have heard both formats through both MQA (a Meridian dac no less) and non-MQA dacs. Violins certainly sounded more like individual violins with the non-MQA format via a non-MQA dac.

adds that DSD smoothness to whatever you are listening to. 

Not something everyone would like for every recording but personal preferences are well respected.