paul_riordan Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 From HIGHRESAUDIO's Facebook page: Breaking News: HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA. Proprietary system solutions and licensing models aren't what customers want. MQA is NOT lossless, the original signal is never recovered, estimate to recover at most 17bits (reduces the sampling rate), reduces the frequency range, SNR reduced by 3bit, aliasing with artifacts at 18kHz. MQA encoding filters manipulate drastically the original source. No analysis tools are available to verify the encoded MQA content. Therefore no quality control is possible. highresaudio.com stands for offering purity, original mastering source, none manipulated, tweaked or up-sampled content and codecs that are widely supported and offer use of freedom. "We hope that MQA will adjust all the above issues. We are truly disappointed, the way MQA has progressed in the past year. We have been mislead and blinded by trust and promises." Stereo Source: Auralic Aries + Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ Surround Source: Windows PC Pre-amp: Mark Levinson ML380s, Anthem D2v Speakers: ATC SCM50A (L/R/C), C4 (Sub), SCM20-2A (LR,RR) Link to comment
realhifi Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 From HIGHRESAUDIO's Facebook page: Breaking News: HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA. Proprietary system solutions and licensing models aren't what customers want. MQA is NOT lossless, the original signal is never recovered, estimate to recover at most 17bits (reduces the sampling rate), reduces the frequency range, SNR reduced by 3bit, aliasing with artifacts at 18kHz. MQA encoding filters manipulate drastically the original source. No analysis tools are available to verify the encoded MQA content. Therefore no quality control is possible. highresaudio.com stands for offering purity, original mastering source, none manipulated, tweaked or up-sampled content and codecs that are widely supported and offer use of freedom. "We hope that MQA will adjust all the above issues. We are truly disappointed, the way MQA has progressed in the past year. We have been mislead and blinded by trust and promises." Who is highresaudio? David Link to comment
paul_riordan Posted February 21, 2017 Author Share Posted February 21, 2017 Who is highresaudio? They are one of the big providers of High Resolution music files FLAC/DSD etc etc. They recently started selling MQA files https://www.highresaudio.com/en Stereo Source: Auralic Aries + Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ Surround Source: Windows PC Pre-amp: Mark Levinson ML380s, Anthem D2v Speakers: ATC SCM50A (L/R/C), C4 (Sub), SCM20-2A (LR,RR) Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/highresaudio Link to comment
fragoulisnaval Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Excellent post and a big BRAVO to them for stating their opinion openly. These kind of companies we should all support Στάλθηκε από το X9007 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk Link to comment
Kal Rubinson Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Well, I cannot read Facebook but MQA is still listed on their website. Kal Rubinson Senior Contributing Editor, Stereophile Link to comment
paul_riordan Posted February 21, 2017 Author Share Posted February 21, 2017 Well, I cannot read Facebook but MQA is still listed on their website. Hmmm...interesting - the "Breaking News" item has now been removed from their facebook page !!!! Possible hack ? It was also tweeted - https://twitter.com/HIGHRESAUDIO/status/834026080885473280 Stereo Source: Auralic Aries + Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ Surround Source: Windows PC Pre-amp: Mark Levinson ML380s, Anthem D2v Speakers: ATC SCM50A (L/R/C), C4 (Sub), SCM20-2A (LR,RR) Link to comment
Fyper Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 From HIGHRESAUDIO's Facebook page: Breaking News: HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA. Proprietary system solutions and licensing models aren't what customers want. MQA is NOT lossless, the original signal is never recovered, estimate to recover at most 17bits (reduces the sampling rate), reduces the frequency range, SNR reduced by 3bit, aliasing with artifacts at 18kHz. MQA encoding filters manipulate drastically the original source. No analysis tools are available to verify the encoded MQA content. Therefore no quality control is possible. highresaudio.com stands for offering purity, original mastering source, none manipulated, tweaked or up-sampled content and codecs that are widely supported and offer use of freedom. "We hope that MQA will adjust all the above issues. We are truly disappointed, the way MQA has progressed in the past year. We have been mislead and blinded by trust and promises." So there is hope not to see MQA becoming the market standard. Link to comment
crenca Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Well, I cannot read Facebook but MQA is still listed on their website. Yep, I went to their Facebook page (at least the horrible pop-up infested garbage they offer non-facebook users such as myself) and the only mention of MQA you can find is special discounting on certain MQA downloads. Probably a hoax. What about all this paul_riordan, you appear to have done a driveby... Hey MQA, if it is not all $voodoo$, show us the math! Link to comment
paul_riordan Posted February 21, 2017 Author Share Posted February 21, 2017 Yep, I went to their Facebook page (at least the horrible pop-up infested garbage they offer non-facebook users such as myself) and the only mention of MQA you can find is special discounting on certain MQA downloads. Probably a hoax. What about all this paul_riordan, you appear to have done a driveby... I was only highlighting what I saw on their Facebook page (and Twitter) - their update is still there on Twitter but the link to the Facebook update now does not work !!! As I said above this could be a hack !!! Stereo Source: Auralic Aries + Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ Surround Source: Windows PC Pre-amp: Mark Levinson ML380s, Anthem D2v Speakers: ATC SCM50A (L/R/C), C4 (Sub), SCM20-2A (LR,RR) Link to comment
RichardTownsend Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 I was only highlighting what I saw on their Facebook page (and Twitter) - their update is still there on Twitter but the link to the Facebook update now does not work !!! As I said above this could be a hack !!! The pseudo-scientific way that post is written strongly suggests it was a hack. Link to comment
Jud Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Hard to think of much that is better calculated to get highresaudio to *not* pay attention when people start wanting to speak with them about MQA. One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
Fridolin Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Donald was there :-). Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 The pseudo-scientific way that post is written strongly suggests it was a hack. I think it may have had a Russian accent. Link to comment
ron spencer Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Hmmm...interesting - the "Breaking News" item has now been removed from their facebook page !!!! Possible hack ? It was also tweeted - https://twitter.com/HIGHRESAUDIO/status/834026080885473280 Gone off of Twitter as well... Maybe Meridian is out scrubbing??? Link to comment
witchdoctor Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 From HIGHRESAUDIO's Facebook page: Breaking News: HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA. Proprietary system solutions and licensing models aren't what customers want. MQA is NOT lossless, the original signal is never recovered, estimate to recover at most 17bits (reduces the sampling rate), reduces the frequency range, SNR reduced by 3bit, aliasing with artifacts at 18kHz. MQA encoding filters manipulate drastically the original source. No analysis tools are available to verify the encoded MQA content. Therefore no quality control is possible. highresaudio.com stands for offering purity, original mastering source, none manipulated, tweaked or up-sampled content and codecs that are widely supported and offer use of freedom. "We hope that MQA will adjust all the above issues. We are truly disappointed, the way MQA has progressed in the past year. We have been mislead and blinded by trust and promises." Gee this is a tough one Warner Music and Universal or HIRESAUDIO, hmmm who should I trust??? I think I;ll go with the two biggest music companies in the world, sory HIRESAUDIO, BTW, you don't mind that demand for DSD will fall off the face of the earth once MQA piles on right? Link to comment
manicm Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Don't know about the Facebook page, but I emailed HighResAudio directly and they responded - it's official. No more MQA downloads from March. Link to comment
MikeJazz Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Who is highresaudio? Already bought Hi-rez from them... http://www.computeraudiophile.com/members/mikejazz/ funded this campain: http://igg.me/at/geekpulseaudio/x/5216671 Link to comment
MikeJazz Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Gee this is a tough one Warner Music and Universal or HIRESAUDIO, hmmm who should I trust??? I think I;ll go with the two biggest music companies in the world, sory HIRESAUDIO, BTW, you don't mind that demand for DSD will fall off the face of the earth once MQA piles on right? It makes no sense to compare Warner and Universal (editors of music and owners of the music) with an online retailer...who apparently were misled by MQA on a number of important factors. You instead should be thankful that a retailer is worried about how to control the quality of what is being sold...others just don't care and just sell what is being dropped on their sites. The great jumps in quality (almost) never come from the big companies. In Hi-end all major players come from small companies, sometimes from the effort of single people, sometimes from the join forces of small team of experts. Why should we trust the bigger companies that have mainly eyes on profit? Which in music means recycling: Re-pack, re-format, resell, re-brand, the same music, over and over again. Sometime in the future I want to try DSD... http://www.computeraudiophile.com/members/mikejazz/ funded this campain: http://igg.me/at/geekpulseaudio/x/5216671 Link to comment
jcn3 Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 in my opinion -- since this whole thread was started based on fake news, it should be locked. (1) holo audio red (hqp naa) > chord dave > luxman cl-38uc/mq-88uc > kef reference 1 (2) simaudio moon mind 2 > chord qutest > luxman sq-n150 > monitor audio gold gx100 Link to comment
mm67 Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 in my opinion -- since this whole thread was started based on fake news, it should be locked. What fake news ? https://www.facebook.com/highresaudio Link to comment
MikeJazz Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 in my opinion -- since this whole thread was started based on fake news, it should be locked. Too many fake news lately, that is fact. Curiously linked to real leaks. But this is not one of those fake news! http://www.computeraudiophile.com/members/mikejazz/ funded this campain: http://igg.me/at/geekpulseaudio/x/5216671 Link to comment
Kal Rubinson Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Good news, actually! I don't see that. One vendor's decision, to which he/she/it is entitled is neither here nor there. Kal Rubinson Senior Contributing Editor, Stereophile Link to comment
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