audioman58 - please translate your post to English.
On second thought, never mind.
Dave
On second thought, never mind.
Dave
Aurender upgrades Tidal - MQA -Only for A10 and 20 - lesser models not worth their time
Hello I was totally pissed off when I seen upgrades available the latest Tidal MQA to enable
Will MQA on the latest firmware download on applies yo their top machines your $3k and under 100H series don't rate. The engineers at Tidal said that this being a software based download
There is no reason the 100 can't have firmware code written for it.
Other lesser players have MQA in their players . This smells like a numbers game to try to force
You into spending double or more for their top end players.which is total BS.
Please note to Anyone that was considering buying a Aurender player.
The 100H has a 2T hard drive ,and a 120gig solid state buffer for super fast response and No moving parts. That is why I bought it .It is a great buy. MQA IS A absolute Must have to hear their reference top quality files on Tidal. A waste if time without . Any current Aurender 100 owners let Aurender know how being shunned will not go unnoticed !!
Will MQA on the latest firmware download on applies yo their top machines your $3k and under 100H series don't rate. The engineers at Tidal said that this being a software based download
There is no reason the 100 can't have firmware code written for it.
Other lesser players have MQA in their players . This smells like a numbers game to try to force
You into spending double or more for their top end players.which is total BS.
Please note to Anyone that was considering buying a Aurender player.
The 100H has a 2T hard drive ,and a 120gig solid state buffer for super fast response and No moving parts. That is why I bought it .It is a great buy. MQA IS A absolute Must have to hear their reference top quality files on Tidal. A waste if time without . Any current Aurender 100 owners let Aurender know how being shunned will not go unnoticed !!
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This device is fully capable of producing MQA encoded streams to a DAC. What it will not do is decode MQA. This is how MQA works. The decoding firmware should be DAC specific. Having said that, I think Tidal is doing a quasi-MQA decoding if you run Chrome, so it is possible this may be somewhat subject to change. At the current time though, this is exactly how Meridian designed MQA. I would not be upset with Aurrender. Best, E |
Just keep in mind as you rush to spend money on the latest tech that MQA will fail. Bob's stated aim is to change all music production to AD-Processing-DA with MQA not just DA over PCM. Secondly, MQA is not "better than" the PCM source in 99% of intentionally distorted and compressed pop music. That's just their marketing to get MQA in the door then take over later. I would know, I make the source files. MQA knows this too. Only for super natural acoustic/natural music based in realism is there even a tiny opportunity for advantage with the MQA round trip. And not nearly as important as a better amp, speakers, DA, etc. Pop music and classical music from tape or digital PCM to MQA? Forget it. From Michael of Berkeley Audio, who is on board with MQA: I spoke with Bob Stuart about your concerns regarding the marketing of MQA and he conceded you have valid point. He also said that “de-blurring” (the MQA time-domain filter fixup) can be omitted during encoding and that doing so would be appropriate in situations such as yours where what could be considered technical artifacts of the A/D conversion process are part of a large number of factors that were combined deliberately to produce the precise sound of the mastered recording. " Including and adjusting for the AD artifacts is part of the gig in mastering. I suggest people push for streaming of master files or use the services coming on to stream them. If you want to have a nice 16 bit file, use dbPoweramp to shrink your files, it's far better than MQA. SRC comparisons here: http://src.infinitewave.ca/ |
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