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  1. Rt66indierock

    Are You a Furry as Well as an Audiophile?

    Ron, it is better to imagine the folks in audio as Ed Roth characters (see Rat Fink) or Bill Campbell’s Weird-ohs (see Davey) .
  2. Rt66indierock

    "Long-Term Equipment Loans: A Win-Win for Everyone" by Robert Harley, The Absolute Sound

    Why should Jay be treated any differently than Lee Scoggins?
  3. Rt66indierock

    Lenbrook Acquires MQA!

    Based on your prior posts. You can’t google tidal music layoffs. Find the investor page on Block Inc’s site. Or understand why Tidal Music does not fit in a Rule of 40 company.
  4. Rt66indierock

    Lenbrook Acquires MQA!

    Tidal is tired of an extremely effective boycott against their MQA tier and they are getting rid of it as a cost cutting measure. And of course, Block Inc is moving Tidal out of the streaming market since they can’t compete.
  5. Rt66indierock

    Lenbrook Acquires MQA!

    Nope, looks like you can kiss MQA goodbye April 10, 2024. Tidal is moving to one tier except for DJs. Nobody seems to care what Lenbrook is doing except for you.
  6. Rt66indierock

    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    Like clockwork, here you go. From PLOS (Public Library of Science) published August 15, 2023. Music can be reconstructed from human auditory cortex activity using nonlinear decoding models https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002176
  7. Rt66indierock

    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    Thanks Ron. The Apple headphone dongle is what you plug into an iPhone then plug in headphones to listen to music. Essentially transparent is a SINAD just above the resolution of a CD. My dongle has a SINAD of 99. I can still hear noises and differences at this level of resolution. So...
  8. Rt66indierock

    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    Ron, if I can press you for a couple of answers. My Apple headphone dongle is essentially transparent. Do you know why? Let's hook you up with a bunch of sensors in your head, put on headphones and play Pink Floyd's The Wall. Do you think we can reconstruct the music from your brain activity?
  9. Rt66indierock

    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    MQA is Vaporware was and is not a cornfield meet. It was an intentional collision between people who have more status and influence than the people who are considered the audiophile authority structure. Online train wrecks have nothing to do with real railroading.
  10. Rt66indierock

    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    I disagree. The most important thread in audio today is MQA is Vaporware. It has been going on since January 2, 2017, and is 1074 pages with 2.9 million views. Keep the egos and the train wrecks they advance my agenda which is to divide the audio world into high performance audio and whatever...
  11. Rt66indierock

    Thinking about starting a YouTube channel on high end audio.

    Lee, you will be trashed if you start a YouTube channel. We are in a mode of holding people accountable for supporting MQA. There is a critical mass of people who resent your promotion MQA and nobody to told them back.
  12. Rt66indierock

    Lenbrook Acquires MQA!

    It is just your imagination a security update would change the sound.
  13. Rt66indierock

    Lenbrook Acquires MQA!

    Spotify’s format
  14. Rt66indierock

    Lenbrook Acquires MQA!

    If the only streaming formats were Ogg/Vorbis. 320k Mp3 and Apple 256K AAC 99+% of the paid subscribers would not care.
  15. Rt66indierock

    Lenbrook Acquires MQA!

    How are the same people going to tweak the encoding procedure?
  16. Rt66indierock

    Lenbrook Acquires MQA!

    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...
  17. Rt66indierock

    Do Mobile Fidelity Vinyl Re-issues Have a Digital Step in the Process?

    The case is now closed. The settlement was approved December 26, 2023.
  18. Rt66indierock

    Do Mobile Fidelity Vinyl Re-issues Have a Digital Step in the Process?

    Case isn’t finalized yet.
  19. Rt66indierock

    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    The reviewers you talk about have already failed. MQA wiped out a big chunk all of them when they couldn't tell what it was. Mobile Fidelity wiped out another big chunk when reviewers couldn't tell that there was a digital step in 126 records. Two time losers would be people like Michael Fremer.
  20. Rt66indierock

    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    So, let's hook up Ron Resnick with a bunch of sensors in his head, put on headphones and play Pink Floyd's The Wall. Do you think we can reconstruct the music from Ron’s brain activity?
  21. Rt66indierock

    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    Who are these trained listeners you're talking about? In my case I was taught audio by Techtronix engineers when I was a teenager. I found out when I had dinner with John Atkinson after the Annual Gala that he is self-taught as is Amir at ASR. Robert Harley of TAS claims to have an audio...
  22. Rt66indierock

    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    Ron, I'm sorry I missed you at the gala. I was busy helping set up and catching up with people that I hadn't seen for quite a while. I think you have things backwards. When we talk about human hearing and human perception at their limits, we are talking about things that are fairly constant...
  23. Rt66indierock

    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    This thread is terrific. But you are forgetting a few things. The limits of human hearing. The limits of human perception The effects of aging on hearing ability You guys carry on.
  24. Rt66indierock

    Robert Harley's Wonderful Defense of our Subjective Hobby

    You don’t understand the sonic issues with MQA and don’t want to maybe your comment is out of place? You have it exactly backwards, I’m hearing things Robert didn’t and should have.
  25. Rt66indierock

    Robert Harley's Wonderful Defense of our Subjective Hobby

    I just got back from the LAOCAS Annual Gala. I had dinner with John Atkinson Sunday night, we talked about life and technical audio stuff. I dismissed Robert’s credibility but didn’t say it here. Sorry but we knew about jitter before the paper Robert is citing (1992) and what we needed to do...
  26. Rt66indierock

    Robert Harley's Wonderful Defense of our Subjective Hobby

    Ron, I just finished packing up my warm clothes and am headed to the Annual Gala. Robert Harley likes MQA so you have to question his hearing and expertise.
  27. Rt66indierock

    My Theory of Sonic Cues to Explain Different Sounding Systems

    Thanks for reopening this thread. It is an endless source of amusement. Audiophiles going at each other is the way it has always been. Good luck stopping that.
  28. Rt66indierock

    What has been your best component upgrade?

    No question my Verizon LG ThinQ V60. Essentially transparent.
  29. Rt66indierock

    Lenbrook Acquires MQA!

    Liking MQA defines the wrong side of the bell curve of audiophiles. The opponents of MQA are in a mode of holding the people who promoted it accountable for their attempt to manipulate the audio market. And if to convince the small number of audiophiles who still like MQA they are wrong we will...
  30. Rt66indierock

    Lenbrook Acquires MQA!

    Time for an update. Lenbrook bought the MQA IP for $75k, The SCL6 IP for $25k and equipment for $25k. I’ve questioned the expertise of every supporter since 2016. With these numbers I can now question the hearing ability of every person who ever said they liked MQA.

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