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Lenbrook Acquires MQA!
Let me repeat myself from this thread yesterday: - MQA is "lossy" only in case of higher than 48kHz sampling rates. All the MQA tracks sampled at 44,1kHz or 48 kHz are using MLP compression, which is lossless. - How many times have you complained about losslessness when you listened to a CD...- ferenc_k
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Lenbrook Acquires MQA!
We have made a live studio recording for one of our albums in DXD, DSD256 and tape, live and fully analogue mixed. Recorded with a Merging Anubis and Pyramix for the highest possible stereo quality, with no post-production or mastering of any kind. We recorded the same live event with the same...- ferenc_k
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There are very few processes in audio which are lossless recursively, as you defined. Most of the CDs since the early, mid-nineties were mastered at 48k/16 or 24 bit and then converted to 44,1k/16 for the red book compatibility, so if the starting point for a CD is the original master, even a CD...- ferenc_k
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Yeah these minor streaming services (add Deezer ) are most likely losing money and their growing potential is limited.- ferenc_k
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Apple (and Amazon) seems to be serious about being carbon-zero. Their last presentation in 2 weeks' time was at least very serious about it. So I would not discount this as a reason to acquire MQA (or part of it) by Lenbrook and license it in some form, to others. There are many possibilities...- ferenc_k
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Radio Paradise, as I see it is not a streaming service but an Internet Radio. Otherwise, we do not have a clue why Lenbrook acquired and what they plan with MQA. Give them time, and I hope they have a plan which will be beneficial for all of us.- ferenc_k
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Amazon and Apple are very different cases as they sell hardware, and they use their streaming services to boost hardware sales. Apple has something like 20 billion USD in revenue from Airpod and earphones, and headphone sales. Way more than their revenue from streaming.- ferenc_k
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Lenbrook Acquires MQA!
You oversimplify claims for sure. One example: - MQA is lossless in case of 44,1k/24 bit and 48k//24 bit as it uses MLP compression. So MQA has a loss (from a data point of view), only above 24 kHz sampling. Are you sure you can realise it in a listening test? I am not. Is lossless really...- ferenc_k
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Lenbrook Acquires MQA!
I will check it tommorrow. It is almost 11pm here.- ferenc_k
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Lenbrook Acquires MQA!
We, end users, have no direct relationship with MQA Ltd. Absolutely nothing, So they did not have to "provide a stupidity certificate" as you say or to convince us. They had to convince their industrial partners and potential technology partners. As roughly 20 million tracks are processed...- ferenc_k
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I do not think so. I am sure it is challenging to convince Warner, Universal, Sony, XMOS, AKM, ESS, etc to spend money, time on developing, applying something which is an "objective lie" as you say. Are you sure they are as stupid as you try to show them?- ferenc_k
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I really wonder, how MQA Ltd (a very small company) could put pressure on giants like Warner Music, Universal Music or Sony Music?- ferenc_k
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Thanks for the correction. I know it as we were experimenting with it, as Apple developers, for our experimental streaming app. It is not the API, as you mention properly, that makes integration with Roon possible; this is why I said there is no API (the right one) from them.- ferenc_k
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I am very sorry for my poor English.... The master is never in MQA. The master is always PCM, sometimes in (native) DSD. The PCM master is processed to become MQA. MQA is a distribution format, not a mastering one. So, there is always a non-MQA version. However, it is the choice of the label...- ferenc_k
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Yes. Morten Lindberg from 2L tested and fingerprinted hundreds of ADCs for this.- ferenc_k
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