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Tidal class-action

MQA declared bankruptcy.  I smell the fear of a class action lawsuit against Tidal.  We could do that.  Tidal has 8 million subscribers, we don't know how many or how long they all were paying double by subscribing to the 'nobody can prove Tidal has any tracks higher than 44.1khz' plan.  They probably have lots of people on phones who haven't even heard of MQA who trust them and wanted the one that sounds better.  They're right not to have to listen to any talk about MQA if they want the plan that sounds better.

MQA means you can't prove the file is an original copy or not. That Beethoven track you like it says is 192 could actually be Dua Lipa at 11khz.

The bankruptcy move was probably to protect themselves from Tidal, who is the receiver of people's funds.

 

audioisnobiggie
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tomcy6
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@audioguy85 

It's much more fun interacting with a physical copy of something. Watching that record spin, or the reels of the cassette spinning in the Nak or Aiwa....I own 5 turntables for a reason....they all do something different and are a joy to use.

You enjoy physical media, I enjoy finding new artists and music that I really like but never would have known about without streaming. 

I have a large collection of albums in various formats that I had fun putting together, but playing them now really doesn't do anything for me.  To each his own.  Enjoy your music!

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tomcy6
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@audioisnobiggie 

Why only 2.79, when people have been paying an extra $10 for years?

Legal fees.

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tomcy6:

Well we'd just have to settle for justice served, sent a message to the future, then.

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@tomcy6 why does playing your records not do justice or do it for you? Curious.....because if you have the proper analog set up, there is nothing that can compare. Also, i do stream, just not hi res....as I mentioned in my reply. I stream when I'm both lazy and want to find new music. Then when I find something I like, I go out and buy the physical copy.  

petaluman
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HDCD was a similar technology applied to physical CDs, where the native sample rate had a fixed limit.  I believe MQA is similar, but used for streaming, where the potential signal bandwidth continues to increase.  If you have a high speed Internet connection and local network bandwidth, you don't need or want MQA.  However, if your stream to DAC is bandwidth limited, it may be of value to you.  Over time, though, the audience for processing such as MQA grows more limited, just like HDCD was effectively superseded by SACD (which is also heading towards obsolescence due to high rez streaming)

The OP comes across more as prejudiced than informed.  Buggy whips weren't proven ineffective or fraudulent, they just weren't needed for cars.

 

PS FLAC is a compressed file format.  It needs to be rendered back to its original state (wav for audio files) to be converted to analog.  This capability can be built into a DAC.

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