cj1965
Responses from cj1965
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax "Read cj1965’s original post several times and not sure I understand or agree with his central premise -- that "The impulse response ripple is not something that happens in real world sounds or in a properly designed audio reproduction chain."... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax " Of which my main point: I wonder why no real, total AD/DA loop measurements are shown anywhere.The other being the measurement with "correct impulse responses", ie. measuring a DAC not only a not existing, abstract sequence of (one) sample. ... | |
| How much is MQA conversion? The licensing agreements between the resellers (Tidal) and those who own the rights to the copyrighted material tend to be private. One thing is certain, however, you can be sure that once a full implementation of the sound "degrading system" MQA ... | |
| “MQA is a philosophy”..John Stuart @ Brian LuceyHi Brian!Thanks for contributing." Batch processing of my work, by labels, is happening as we speak. It’s not "Authenticated" as a master by me, or my clients ... it’s just another lossy codec. " - Brian LuceyYour are spot on as ... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax " The way this expertise is simply thrown into the wind in these discussions, flooded by arguments that are, put in diplomatical words, two or three floors below the level set by Craven and Stuarts, makes me cringe! " - pegasusReally? Two or t... | |
| Cable Snake Oil Antidote aalenikIt's nothing personal and not a trolling attempt. You just posted something that has no basis in fact and it needed to be corrected. Throughout the history of Hi Fi, interconnect cables have been notorious for picking up stray signals (espe... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax @ clearthinkThe problem with your suggestion is that it is based on a faulty premise. The Audiophile press's push to back MQA is "common knowledge" as a quick 5 minute Google search will reveal. The problem with the MQA pre ring post ring hoax is ... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax " Charles Hansen of Ayre Acoustics and many other audio manufacturers use Minimum Phase filters in their digital components. It is my understanding that the purpose of these filters is to eliminate preringing. I know very little about elect... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax " Your point that preringing and postringing do not exist is not generally accepted as fact among the people who design and build audio equipment. If you want to present that opinion to us, fine, but to say it's fact and that anyone who doesn'... | |
| Publication bias and confounders in product reviews - TAS, Stereophile, Audiogon, etcetera " Well I just think it is funny that so many here seem to complain about the "big push" for MQA by the audiophile press but they give no examples of specific articles or authors but i guess it is like some of the other matters here on Audiogon ... | |
| Cable Snake Oil Antidote " I just had a banana for breakfast. Does that mean I'll get mad bananas disease? 😄 "Lol...nah, you'll be fine. It's just the eggs from chickens that eat other chickens you have to worry about.... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax @tomcy6 I'm very calm. Use of capitals doesn't mean I'm not very calm. I'm not sure how to highlight or boldface anything for emphasis using this interface. Unlike most of the participants here, I don't bother posting to such forums very often. I ... | |
| Publication bias and confounders in product reviews - TAS, Stereophile, Audiogon, etcetera " Honesty is so far down the list of priorities it's seen as a mythical quality to all but the gullible. On a sinking ship integrity, because of its weight, is the first thing that gets thrown overboard. " - cd318" Hi-Fi journalism is akin to ... | |
| Cable Snake Oil Antidote Science re enforces religion on a daily basis - ask any astronomer for his/her views as to whether expansion of the universe is speeding up or slowing down. Ask a particle physicist about the challenges associated with measuring subatomic particle... | |
| Cable Snake Oil Antidote aalenik said " Here's what I've found in over 40 years of listening...1. Cables (and AC cords) DEFINITELY make a difference.2. Interconnects cannot 'improve' sound. All they can do is degrade it. The best ones degrade the sound the least (i.... |