MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote!


Vote please. Simply yes or no. Let’s get a handle on our collective thinking.
The discussions are getting nauseating. Intelligent(?) People are claiming that they can remove part of the music (digits), encode the result for transport over the net, then decode (reassemble) the digits remaining after transportation (reduced bits-only the unnecessary ones removed) to provide “Better” sound than the original recording.
If you feel this is truly about “better sound” - vote Yes.
If you feel this is just another effort by those involved to make money by helping the music industry milk it’s collection of music - vote no.
Lets know what we ‘goners’ think.
P.S. imho The “bandwidth” problem this is supposed to ‘help’ with will soon be nonexistent. Then this “process” will be a ‘solution’ to a non existing problem. I think it is truly a tempest in a teacup which a desperate industry would like to milk for all its worth, and forget once they can find a new way to dress the Emporer. Just my .02

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INHO MQA sounds better than Red Hat CD quality, and so it should. The BIG question is how much is this new algorithm going to cost the consumer and who gets the prospective profits?

I have no problem with the introduction of new technology and software as long as it improves the quality of the product and does not impose itself and extra cost on to the consumer.

Come with Tidal HiFi subscription free, why not? Sportify, Apple Music are all compressed MP3.

Tidal is moving away from MQA and Pink Floyd 'The division bell has a version with mixed formats and with my dac and roon streamer MQA clearly sounded better in 24/88.1 compared to flac 24/192. the flac was 2 dimensional or boring and it's obvious when format changes because the whole experience becomes more involving thru the mqa process. Once Tidal no longer supports MQA i'll drop tidal.