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<p>Dear Bob L. I have written to Bob Stuart but not gotten any
response yet. Of course I want to audition MQA, but I'm using a
digital crossover, and for stereo I have 4 channels of DAC so I
need a digital MQA "decoder". Any thoughts on that?</p>
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<div class="">Just to reiterate, Thomas is 100% right in my
opinion, needlessly crushing music is by FAR the #1 item that
needs to be fixed for better sound, nothing else matters when
you start with unsatisfying music. However, assuming you’ve got
great sounding music, then all the rest comes in to play!<br
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<div class="">The TIDAL MQA material isn’t officially launched
yet, but Bob Stuart said there are people who know the URL
that would get one to the beta site.</div>
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<div class="">I don’t know how much you know about MQA, but it
is several “things” under one MQA name. It is an audio
de-blur algorithm, it is a “folding” or <u class="">data</u>
compressing algorithm folding 384 kHz or less into either a
44.1kHz or 48kHz/24 bit file (which can be streamed at 1 -
1.3MB/sec) and it is a digital copy protection scheme where
theoretically you could make a one-off DAC that is coded to
your converter and only people with the same converter could
hear the music!</div>
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<div class="">As far as MQA examples go, without an MQA DAC you
can’t hear the whole thing, but one could hear some of the
results of the de-blur process using a normal converter. I’m
trying to see if I can find you a before and after example.
I’ll get back to you.</div>
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<div class="">In the mean time, you can check out Morten
Lindberg's 2L label “test bench”. Even though he is recording
at 352.8kHz, Morten still finds the MQA to create a superior
sound.</div>
<div class="">It’s a mind blower to see a 44.1kHz/24 bit file
feed the MQA converter and the resulting FFT goes right out to
176.4kHz!!</div>
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<div class="">On May 8, 2016, at 6:20 PM, Ian Shepherd
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<div class="">Can you recommend a release that
really highlights the benefits of MQA ? Is there a
way to tell which files on TIDAL are encoded with
MQA ? And is there a converter you’d recommend ? </div>
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<div class="">Although I’m afraid Thomas may well be
right, I’m curious to give it a try.</div>
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<div class="">On 8 May 2016, at 14:27, Bob
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<p class="">It's a good thing I buy my
music either on CD or from HD tracks or
similar vendors. I only buy the AAC from
the iTunes store when one of my clients
wants me to reference a CD that I don't
have and I have to listen to it "now".
If then I like that music, then I go out
and buy it, usually on CD. Amazon has
become my major vendor, I pity the brick
and mortar stores, though Best Buy seems
to be hanging on, they don't have the CD
collection I can get online from Amazon.
I can then transfer the CD into iTunes
and use on my iPhone if I like. <br
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<p class="">For my highest-sonic-quality
personal entertainment on my iPhone I
use an incredible app called HFPlayer
from Onkyo..... in conjunction with an
Oppo DAC that connects via Lightning
directly to the iPhone and plays any
high res. flac files I have on the
iPhone up to 384 kHz/24 bit (and also
plays DSD directly into the ESS Sabre
DAC in the Oppo DAC).... It beats the
crap out of the Astel and Kearn stuff
that is so unreliable and
uber-expensive. <br class="">
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<p class="">Bob L., I tried the Astel and
Kearn player and got it to crash in 15
minutes, three times before I called it
flakey. And their communication with
their dealers and reps is exremely
shakey. I do not like this company. If
they wanted to make a dependable music
player, why did they pick the Android
operating system?<br class="">
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<p class="">Also, sorry, Neil Young, this
Oppo/iPhone combination beats the Pono
because I can also take phone calls
:-(. If I'm jogging or don't want to
carry the DAC, the HF Player will
downsample the high res material so it
will work out of the iPhone's regular
headphone jack. <br class="">
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<p class="">Tip: the Oppo PM-3 headphones
are killers! Maybe the most accurate and
impacting headphones you can get and
carry with you to play music. <br
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<p class="">If you want to salivate about
the best portable playback on earth, in
my opinion, read my review of the Oppo
pieces and the HF plyaer: visit
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href="http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/katzs-corner-episode-11-oppo-explosion#RiXt3ToxveQ4BMf5.97">http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/katzs-corner-episode-11-oppo-explosion#RiXt3ToxveQ4BMf5.97</a>
These PM-3 headphones have bass that
goes down to the center of the earth,
are extremely accurate and tonally
neutral.... With a little of the 64-bit
EQ in the HF-player you can get even
more accurate playback.... and the Oppo
DAC/headphone amp is clean and punchy
and open.... <br class="">
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<p class="">I have tons of high res flacs
that fit in a 64 GB iPhone. If Apple
lost for me the purchased AAC music that
I have from the iTunes store I'd be
pissed, but not that pissed because I
just don't have that much money invested
in AAC material I bought from the iTunes
store. It seems to me that music must be
in the iPhone backup that's on my Mac,
though, isn't it???? I'm only
semi-attached to the cloud. I use icloud
for Notes, Calendar, etc., but not for
music (I think). I share my iTunes
library with a few OSX computers....
maybe that's through iCloud? Yuk....</p>
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<div class="">This casual treatment of
tracks fits with what I'm seeing in
iTunes. One has to actively disable
cloud replacement time after time so
iTunes doesn’t steal your known-good
tracks. From Tidal I’ve heard how
record companies require them to carry
only the newest (crappiest) version of
a track, and make sure originals
aren’t available.</div>
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<div class="">Compared to such
demolishment, I’m afraid MQA is a
sheer marketing detail which is bound
to disappoint consumers just like the
myriad of previous attempts at
promising “hidef". 24 bit, 16 bit, 14
bit, 12 bit resolution: Doesn’t
matter. Dither or not: Doesn’t matter.
Sample rate DSD, 192k, 96, 48, 44.1k:
Doesn’t matter. Lossless, 320k, 256k,
128k: Doesn’t matter. The version of a
track/squashing is what generally
matters.</div>
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<div class="">cheers,</div>
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<div class="">I think this
article explains it pretty
well. It isn’t as horrible
as the blog describes, but
it is still taking <u
class="">way</u> too much
control for me to ever want
to use their service.</div>
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<div class="">BTW, Tidal has
300 albums with MQA so with
an MQA converter you can
hear streaming 96kHz or even
352.8kHz music!</div>
<div class="">MQA is really
revolutionary.</div>
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<pre class="" wrap="">Dear friends,
If this story is true it is unimaginably horrific.
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/">https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/</a>
Can anyone please tell me it is not true?
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