MQA is for chumps


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I can just add that Qobuz is not even available where I live, hence I use Tidal. It does sound a lot better than Spotify. When Spotify starts with high rez music I will probably switch to that.
I heard MQA when it first came out and felt back then that it was truly snake oil. It was at THE SHOW and the people presenting the introduction were akin to those who sell time shares. We were not allowed to ask specific questions they just kept trying to pour into our heads of how good it sounded, i wondered what they were hearing as i heard poop. Total rip off.
I actually have 2 time shares that I am happy with. A small minority of that product is OK. But I do agree that the majority of the sales force is blatant lying PsOS.
My impression is also that MQA was developed as a way to sell the public on the idea of compressed files as being "lossless".
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