MQA is Vaporware

[mansr]

2 minutes ago, Confused said:

Also, for context, does anyone know the value of one share?

Before or after deblurring?

[Confused]

1 minute ago, mansr said:

Before or after deblurring?

I am assuming they are not lossless, let’s put it that way.

[Rt66indierock]

9 minutes ago, Confused said:

Not all 231 are accounted for?  Also, for context, does anyone know the value of one share?

 

121 went to the majority shareholder before the 2017 annual report was submitted. I’ll know the book value when they post the financial statements in September. 

[MikeyFresh]

On 7/30/2018 at 5:13 PM, Rt66indierock said:

I’ll know the book value when they post the financial statements in September. 

 

Hopefully it's akin to a house of cards with a lit match in dangerously close proximity.

[crenca]

Anyone notices the handful of album's on Tidal that are MQA only (no 16/44 version)?  The latest I have found is the new Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams album titled "Vanished Gardens" (Blue Note).

 

Also, with the latest update I have noticed that the Tidal desktop app won't let you see or otherwise get to 16/44 versions of albums that have an MQA version, this is so even when I change my highest playback level in settings down from "master" to "hi fi".  Anyone know of a way around this?

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, crenca said:

Anyone notices the handful of album's on Tidal that are MQA only (no 16/44 version)?  The latest I have found is the new Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams album titled "Vanished Gardens" (Blue Note).

 

Also, with the latest update I have noticed that the Tidal desktop app won't let you see or otherwise get to 16/44 versions of albums that have an MQA version, this is so even when I change my highest playback level in settings down from "master" to "hi fi".  Anyone know of a way around this?

I noticed it with that album as well, so I opened Qobuz and got what I needed. 

[crenca]

Just now, The Computer Audiophile said:

I noticed it with that album as well, so I opened Qobuz and got what I needed. 

 

Qobuz is not official in the US right, so you are VPNing and/or grandfathered in when they were taking US accounts?

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just now, crenca said:

 

Qobuz is not official in the US right, so you are VPNing and/or grandfathered in when they were taking US accounts?

It'll be here this fall. I got an advanced account. I'm working on a write up comparing all the streaming services.

[crenca]

Just now, The Computer Audiophile said:

It'll be here this fall. I got an advanced account. I'm working on a write up comparing all the streaming services.

 

Nice.  I won't like losing the Tidal/Roon synergy but with them both "all in" on MQA they have lost much of their value for me...

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just now, crenca said:

 

Nice.  I won't like losing the Tidal/Roon synergy but with them both "all in" on MQA they have lost much of their value for me...

You'll be fine :~)

[crenca]

13 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

You'll be fine :~)

 

I don't know, I have these funny colored unicorns under my bed that are giving me false negatives...'

 

How's the Audiophile community relations going for you, I bet the heat is approaching "high" right now ?

[The Computer Audiophile]

23 minutes ago, crenca said:

How's the Audiophile community relations going for you, I bet the heat is approaching "high" right now ?

If you only knew. 

 

The old guard isn't happy with me and has been making up stuff left and right. Because this is the MQA thread, I'll say that @Wavelength is publicly saying the people here on CA aren't experts and have no idea how MQA works, and are animals without a zoo keeper. It's a crazy thing for manufacturers now to be denigrating potential customers in service of MQA or some other goal. Perhaps when @mansr called him out he wasn't happy - 

 

[Brinkman Ship]

48 minutes ago, crenca said:

Anyone notices the handful of album's on Tidal that are MQA only (no 16/44 version)?  The latest I have found is the new Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams album titled "Vanished Gardens" (Blue Note).

 

Also, with the latest update I have noticed that the Tidal desktop app won't let you see or otherwise get to 16/44 versions of albums that have an MQA version, this is so even when I change my highest playback level in settings down from "master" to "hi fi".  Anyone know of a way around this?

The 24/96 DL is stunning musically and sonically...no MQA slop need be applied..

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just now, Brinkman Ship said:

The 24/96 DL is stunning musically and sonically...no MQA slop need be applied..

Agreed. 

[Brinkman Ship]

1 minute ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

If you only knew. 

 

The old guard isn't happy with me and has been making up stuff left and right. Because this is the MQA thread, I'll say that @Wavelength is publicly saying the people here on CA aren't experts and have no idea how MQA works, and are animals without a zoo keeper. It's a crazy thing for manufacturers now to be denigrating potential customers in service of MQA or some other goal. Perhaps when @mansr called him out he wasn't happy - 

 

I have found Gordon Rankin over the years to be comically out of touch and extremely unpleasant.

[Brinkman Ship]

Just now, The Computer Audiophile said:

Agreed. 

The version of "Dust" is just devastating...it may outshine the original..

[Brinkman Ship]

5 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

If you only knew. 

 

The old guard isn't happy with me and has been making up stuff left and right. Because this is the MQA thread, I'll say that @Wavelength is publicly saying the people here on CA aren't experts and have no idea how MQA works, and are animals without a zoo keeper. It's a crazy thing for manufacturers now to be denigrating potential customers in service of MQA or some other goal. Perhaps when @mansr called him out he wasn't happy - 

 

I still find it amusing that he claimed Ethernet was unfit for audio and that networked systems would never take off and that streamers were a joke. He just tossed off "get a Mac Mini and plug it into one of my DACs"...at every turn.

[crenca]

5 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

The old guard isn't happy with me and has been making up stuff left and right.

 

That's the thing, when you have a culture and lifestyle of making things up, anyone who comes along (rather it be consumers, manufacturers, a blog/review site owner such as yourself) and is a perceived/actual threat to the status quo is going to get...wait for it...the negative version of the same.

 

"Setting the record straight" only does so much in such a culture/environment.  A culture that is not based on a basic level of honesty and truth is not going to have relationships based on the truth.  

[The Computer Audiophile]

8 minutes ago, crenca said:

 

That's the thing, when you have a culture and lifestyle of making things up, anyone who comes along (rather it be consumers, manufacturers, a blog/review site owner such as yourself) and is a perceived/actual threat to the status quo is going to get...wait for it...the negative version of the same.

 

"Setting the record straight" only does so much in such a culture/environment.  A culture that is not based on a basic level of honesty and truth is not going to have relationships based on the truth.  

 

Yes, their use of facts has been quite Presidential lately. 

 

Don't get me wrong though, I love many parts of this industry and what this hobby does for people's wellbeing. I've met so many people who find solace in listening to music through their HiFi systems and so many people who get home after stressful days and get lost in the music. It's a great escape and I want to do my part to make sure all of this remains an available choice for people and to help them get what they want out of the hobby, not what I want or what I think they need. 

 

I'm really trying to push the focus to be on consumers. Consumers are the one's who sign my paycheck. Sure the advertisers send money, but without consumers none of this exists. If people can't step outside of their bubble and realize they are consumers as well and view this from their own perspective outside of the industry, the future isn't bright for them. Ministers of Information are no longer.

[Rt66indierock]

2 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

If you only knew. 

 

The old guard isn't happy with me and has been making up stuff left and right. Because this is the MQA thread, I'll say that @Wavelength is publicly saying the people here on CA aren't experts and have no idea how MQA works, and are animals without a zoo keeper. It's a crazy thing for manufacturers now to be denigrating potential customers in service of MQA or some other goal. Perhaps when @mansr called him out he wasn't happy - 

 

 

I find it amusing that people in high end audio can't come to grips with a fairly simple idea. That someone like me can't build a team of people outside high end audio that know more than they do. A simple concept called information asymmetry in the financial world. 

[Brinkman Ship]

5 minutes ago, Rt66indierock said:

 

I find it amusing that people in high end audio can't come to grips with a fairly simple idea. That someone like me can't build a team of people outside high end audio that know more than they do. A simple concept called information asymmetry in the financial world. 

...yes...and a HUGE problem is many of the "people in high end audio" who know just enough to be dangerous often have a loyal cadre of sycophants who drool over their every word. Just look at how Rankin addresses his minions...like little children.

 

The biggest flaw in audiophiles is they truly believe expertise in a very narrow discipline make them an expert on everything...

[Rt66indierock]

2 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

 

Yes, their use of facts has been quite Presidential lately. 

 

Don't get me wrong though, I love many parts of this industry and what this hobby does for people's wellbeing. I've met so many people who find solace in listening to music through their HiFi systems and so many people who get home after stressful days and get lost in the music. It's a great escape and I want to do my part to make sure all of this remains an available choice for people and to help them get what they want out of the hobby, not what I want or what I think they need. 

 

I'm really trying to push the focus to be on consumers. Consumers are the one's who sign my paycheck. Sure the advertisers send money, but without consumers none of this exists. If people can't step outside of their bubble and realize they are consumers as well and view this from their own perspective outside of the industry, the future isn't bright for them. Ministers of Information are no longer.

 

So how about some interesting visitor numbers per month courtesy  of SimilarWeb. 

Computer Audiophile 664k

The Absolute Sound 540k

Darko Audio 329k

Analog Planet 265k

Audiostream 264k

Audiophile Review 123k

Tone 121k

 

Should answer any questions people have about why Chris is being attacked.

 

MQA Ltdyou ask sure. Their site crossed 40,000 views in June but I think since January of 2017 this thread has more views.

 

[Brinkman Ship]

3 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

If you only knew. 

 

The old guard isn't happy with me and has been making up stuff left and right. Because this is the MQA thread, I'll say that @Wavelength is publicly saying the people here on CA aren't experts and have no idea how MQA works, and are animals without a zoo keeper. It's a crazy thing for manufacturers now to be denigrating potential customers in service of MQA or some other goal. Perhaps when @mansr called him out he wasn't happy - 

 

Reliving this made my day...seeing Rankin get schooled and embarrassed was simply priceless thank you  @mansr

[Brinkman Ship]

..even more pathetic and hilarious was watching Rankin, in a little love fest with GUTB, try to explain that MQA "reveals more of the music"..by "stripping layers of noise away"...LOL...Ah I needed a good laugh today.?

[Brinkman Ship]

4 minutes ago, Rt66indierock said:

 

So how about some interesting visitor numbers per month courtesy  of SimilarWeb. 

Computer Audiophile 664k

The Absolute Sound 540k

Darko Audio 329k

Analog Planet 265k

Audiostream 264k

Audiophile Review 123k

Tone 121k

 

Should answer any questions people have about why Chris is being attacked.

 

MQA Ltdyou ask sure. Their site crossed 40,000 views in June but I think since January of 2017 this thread has more views.

 

Stereophile????