willemj327 posts
MQA is just a marketing trick. Even Meridian admit they have no scientific dataCan you substantiate that claim?
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willemj327 posts MQA is just a marketing trick. Even Meridian admit they have no scientific dataCan you substantiate that claim? |
Well, Bob Stuart himself has said they have not published research results. Do you know of a scientific paper with results, or even a clear explanation of what it actually is? Archimago has at least published a blind test with quite a few participants. Statistically, people could not identify the MQA recordings reliably, nor did they have real a preference. The test is by no means perfect, but good enough to be highly sceptical. In its most basic form, and from what I understand from the limited information, MQA sacrifices some bit depth to preserve some high frequency information in a lossy form. Is that the great breakthrough that we were waiting for? If we really believe that that information is important (I don’t necessarly), why not simply wait for a bit more bandwith? |