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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Try iFi iDSD DAC. Now offer free MQA firmware flash. I tried Tidal MQA Master streaming. I can say MQA sound better then Redbook. You should listen to it. Best of all, it's all free with Tidal HiFi.
I like I like MQA as an option for some recordings and for a better way to stream stereo using less bandwidth.  I do not like it as a standard for ALL music media or distribution.  It imposes DRM standards which are unacceptable.  It is also not applicable, today, to multi-channel (MCH), which IMHO is the future.  

That makes me a NO.
MQA is a compressed format of 96k/24 88.2k/24. Just like Netflix HD streaming no match of Blue-Ray HD but much better the SD. the 44.1k/16bit is the SD audio. I won't buy MQA files. But Tidal MQA streaming is "free" with Tidal HiFi. 5G, nah, I am using Comcast ISP which will be fast and more reliable than proposed 5G in the future.
I don’t give a flip about anything but sound quality and I am satisfied that MQA is a blessing to those of us that are heavy Tidal users and value best possible sound quality.
What he said 👌🏾