What is Scala 6 worth? Where might variable throttling be valuable?
If you claim Bob and Mike failed then you must believe Scala 6 has no value. My guess is that Scala 6 may have value.
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If you claim Bob and Mike failed then you must believe Scala 6 has no value. My guess is that Scala 6 may have value.
One more thing…Robert Harley, myself, Peter McGrath love the sound of MQA but we are not venture capitalists. Our job is to have an experienced opinion on sound. It’s not to judge the financial success of a startup.
I am not sure MQA will fail but if it does, it is a question of business management and capitalization. It doesn’t mean the format lacks value from a sonic standpoint.
I am not sure MQA will fail but if it does, it is a question of business management and capitalization. It doesn’t mean the format lacks value from a sonic standpoint.
Or backlash form their dishonesty that led to a decline their customer base.
As an aside, I am a little confused when a group of reviewers say:
One more thing…Robert Harley, myself, Peter McGrath love the sound of MQA but we are not venture capitalists. Our job is to have an experienced opinion on sound.
I would presume the standard would be neutrality. My experience with the absolute sound is that anything with a "sound" warranted criticism.
Long live MQA!
As an aside, I am a little confused when a group of reviewers say:
One more thing…Robert Harley, myself, Peter McGrath love the sound of MQA but we are not venture capitalists. Our job is to have an experienced opinion on sound.
I would presume the standard would be neutrality. My experience with the absolute sound is that anything with a "sound" warranted criticism.
Long live MQA!
All three of us heard improvement in the sound quality of Peter’s files and others with MQA encoding. You can disagree with our opinion but we were not dishonest.
As for neutrality, think about just the filters on MQA. If there is less ringing, then the sound will be closer to the performance.
There has been no decline in our customer base. We are at roughly 80K subscribers now, a three fold increase from when I started, largely due to digital subscriptions taking off like a rocket.
I am sorry Lee. I muist not have been clear. I meant MQA experienced a decline in customer base due to MQA dishonesty.
Congratulations on your current and future success. I would have subscribed already, but Google keeps asking me to verify my identity????
Edit: "As for neutrality, think about just the filters on MQA. If there is less ringing, then the sound will be closer to the performance.
Closer than what? Lossless?
Congratulations on your current and future success. I would have subscribed already, but Google keeps asking me to verify my identity????
Edit: "As for neutrality, think about just the filters on MQA. If there is less ringing, then the sound will be closer to the performance.
Closer than what? Lossless?
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Oh I see. I misunderstood. In any event, MQA customer base decline is hard to measure. They have kept signing license agreements so perhaps their customers are really hardware manufacturers and music & video content companies.
That’s not correct. Scala 6 can be valuable to buyers even if more development is needed.
The backlash against MQA and the audiophile press prevented MQA from getting a market share. It is doubtful 300,000 people can decode an MQA file.
Bob Stuart told me himself MQA changed the sound, so it isn’t neutral.
Long live MQA? Sorry if the Licensed Insolvency Practitioners come up with a plan to rescue or restructure MQA Limited they will have to file a plan with Companies House. That plan will be the roadmap to finish MQA off for good.
Sure it does. All MQA have to do is demonstrate a working prototype (which they have) and the buyers will be able to assign some value to it.
Hard to tell the poster’s sense of humor when he says this “Congratulations on your current and future success” about Lee.
What a tacky post.
"The backlash against MQA and the audiophile press prevented MQA from getting a market share. It is doubtful 300,000 people can decode an MQA file."
huh? Backlash?
To this date a significant portion of the audiophile press and community remain in complete denial about their transgressions of MQA. For most of us it was fostered upon us. It failed because it is an overpriced redundancy.
huh? Backlash?
To this date a significant portion of the audiophile press and community remain in complete denial about their transgressions of MQA. For most of us it was fostered upon us. It failed because it is an overpriced redundancy.
I honestly don’t understand why Tom put out that press release. The facts are that Tom himself approved every audio purchase I made during my time at Nextscreen and I purchased these items at standard accommodation pricing. I followed the rules closely and did nothing unethical.
I did do video reviews for our TAS video channel so I would receive equipment in for evaluation. This equipment was promptly returned after the video was shot. For example, we just did a review three weeks ago of the Alta Audio Hestia II loudspeakers with Infigo electronics. We shot the video and the very next day a truck picked up the huge boxes and Pelican-like cases and took them to a warehouse in advance of the Axpona show.