MQA is for chumps

Fuzztone - thanks, will try the link.

I was just digging a p/l that I imported. Then I checked Qobuz files. They have more releases than Spotify did.   Even better.
Jay Graydon

Looks like all the cable naysayers from ANA are on this thread. Do you know how stupid some of these threads look? You try to push so called experts docs/videos biases against your narrative, who gives a sh$t? If you can’t hear or you don’t have a decent system, you won’t hear any difference between cd and dsd/mqa, same goes for cables. These same mqa naysayers probably hated SACD, which was a huge breakthrough in digital music sound wise. If you like cd quality music, good for you, I’m not going to try and convince you otherwise, and you will be saving money by not going with the better formats. Qobuz was inferior to tidal IMO, qobuz didn’t have all the music I like nor did it sound as good.

I love SACD.  I didn’t perceive any consistent difference with MQA.  What does ANA stand for?  In my world it’s Anti Nuclear Antibody 

I have a great, MQA-enabled Esoteric K-01XD SACD/CD player.

The MQA CDs that I own, from Hilary Hahn, Joni Mitchell (Blue), and Chick Corea (Return to Forever) are UHQCD-MQA 24 bit remasters and they sound better than the same CDs in SACD and Redbook CD formats. However, all of my UHQCD disks sound better on my system, so it is hard to determine what format is responsible.

MQA is already a marketing failure for someone like me, because there are very few MQA CDs or vinyl records for sale anywhere, even in Japan. This suggests that this highly-touted format is not all that it was cracked up to be, even following those ads of the woman crying when she hears the MQA format for the first time.