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  1. Josh, if you listen at those levels you will be buying audio equipment by looks alone at my age 70.
  2. We talked about this early on this thread. I mentioned research from Stanford University about needing three filters in April of 2018. Its about time the YouTubers caught up.
  3. Agreed, and sorry but I’m I going to continue working on eliminating MQA as a choice. MQA Ltd now Wave Realizations will soon be liquidated. All that is left is to eliminate Tidal Music. Block Inc becoming a Rule of 40 company will help. All I must do is convince their stock analysts that the right to stream 100 million tracks has little value. It is just a license to lose money.
  4. You might want to spend some time on What’s Best Forum, Steve Hoffman’s Forums, eCoustic, and listen to few YouTube videos about Mobile Fidelity vinyl then talk me about weak links in the audio world.
  5. Did you ask Lee about his upcoming YouTube Channel?
  6. The added payroll they took on when they brought over several employees including Mike Jabra. These costs may exceed the revenue generated from royalties and licensing fees.
  7. Lynbrook is reorganizing their business activities to reflect that they have separate hardware divisions and a software division based on BluOS, MQA and Scl6. This makes sense to categorize these activities separately. I doubt the hardware teams wanted the development and operating costs of BluOS in their financial reporting. Adding MQA Ltd staff they brought over brought over as part of the deal to acquire MQA and SL6 assets would not fit well into their hardware divisions. The number of people who can decode an MQA file was probably never over 300,000 and is now less because Roon no longer automatically decodes MQA files and Tidal is switching to FLAC. Tidal has laid off 40 people and according to a Resident Advisor source the company is making a clear shift from "being music-centric to product-centric–pushing tech initiatives instead of anything related to music, labels, distributors or artists." The quality of this source is unknown, but this would make sense considering Tidal has had virtually no growth since 2020. Tidal will need to show $54 million of revenue in the fourth quarter of 2023 or they will show a loss of revenue from the prior year. What doesn't make sense to me is for Lynbrook to create a streaming service with MQA. High-resolution streaming has not shown that it can attract enough customers to make it worthwhile with Tidal’s numbers, Qobuz’s small numbers and no one talking about how successful high-resolution streaming was at either Apple or Amazon. You must consider that the market may be saturated and there is no room for more growth. What looked like a relatively risk-free acquisition of MQA and SCL 6 now looks a lot riskier.
  8. The case is now closed. The settlement was approved December 26, 2023.
  9. Maybe but isn’t Klipsch high-end (VOXX)? And aren’t some of the Sound United brands (Masimo) high-end? Masimo says in their 10Q, “The non-healthcare segment saw continued slowing in demand for consumer audio products. A difficult environment for consumer discretionary purchases is adversely affecting the market for high-end audio systems.” VOXX CEO Pat Lavelle told analysts that industry-wide “speaker sales are down roughly 16% year-to-date,” quoting data from NPD, a market research company that tracks retail sales.”
  10. The public information about consumer demand in electronics is cause for concern. See Ted Green’s reporting on VOXX and Masimo for some information about demand a little closer to home.
  11. Things seem a little edgy across the spectrum of high-end audio. Personally, I’ve been focused on the economic environment of high-end audio. I wonder if this is the cause.
  12. Considering how well the Apple dongle measures it isn’t surprising people are using it.
  13. Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving everyone celebrating today. I’m in Portland Oregon with family.
  14. MQA Ltd’s name has resurfaced. I want to be the first to wish Mukadas Ali the best in his food, beverage and tobacco venture in Glasgow.
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