Actually, I think I"ll just add Dolby B to CD sound! I've got to patent that....
MQA - Music Discussion
This thread is to discuss MQA music currently available, listening impressions, and how they were encoded.
Please keep tech. talk (except provenance) out of this discussion! :) This thread is about finding good music sources, listening impressions, and mastering. There is a lot to be said about the algorithms, hype, and politics but please use other threads for that in the Digital section perhaps. :)
I'll start. I know right now of only two big labels offering MQA:
2L.no (maybe only test tracks)
and
https://www.highresaudio.com/studio_master.php?fids=153&cr=MQA
as well as at least one indie label. Thanks to Peter Veth over in the DAR thread here:
http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/08/mqa-a-non-hostile-takeover/#comment-135610
I'm particularly interested in talking about works we can find to do A/B comparisons with, as well as any tracks listeners feel are exemplars and say "This is good stuff!" because so far I've had no luck at all.
As others know, the thing that has so far affected music the most is the mastering choices made by the engineers, as opposed to actual encoding technology, so I welcome details of that along with listening impressions.
Thank you.
Please keep tech. talk (except provenance) out of this discussion! :) This thread is about finding good music sources, listening impressions, and mastering. There is a lot to be said about the algorithms, hype, and politics but please use other threads for that in the Digital section perhaps. :)
I'll start. I know right now of only two big labels offering MQA:
2L.no (maybe only test tracks)
and
https://www.highresaudio.com/studio_master.php?fids=153&cr=MQA
as well as at least one indie label. Thanks to Peter Veth over in the DAR thread here:
http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/08/mqa-a-non-hostile-takeover/#comment-135610
I'm particularly interested in talking about works we can find to do A/B comparisons with, as well as any tracks listeners feel are exemplars and say "This is good stuff!" because so far I've had no luck at all.
As others know, the thing that has so far affected music the most is the mastering choices made by the engineers, as opposed to actual encoding technology, so I welcome details of that along with listening impressions.
Thank you.
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@erik_squires The thing - for me - is concentration. I get lost in the music, partly because the quality of the recording is pretty good and partly because I like the music. So I am trying to improve that part of my listening skillset. As a palate cleanser :) I queued up Born To Run yesterday and listened to a 16/44.1 version versus an upsampled 24/88.2 version I made. The high res version was definitely a cleaner, less congested sound to my ears. Since it's an old analog recording, I would love to hear it remastered in MQA. Maybe lose some dynamic compression. Not a true high-res in the Dr Aix sense but definitely a recording that could use some new love. |
A method of compressing and authenticating music using a lossy algorithm created by Bob Stuart and Meridian, replete with unproven claims of actually making music sound better. Requires a DAC with MQA decoding to "take full advantage" of the encoding process. You can read the early press release here: https://www.meridian-audio.com/news-events/meridian-audio-launches-mqa-master-quality-authenticated/ Best, Erik |
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