"MQA has been targeting the weakest players in our world, the audiophiles."

[ddk]

http://fairhedon.com/2017/11/05/an-interview-with-mastering-engineer-brian-lucey/

david

 

[spiritofmusic]

I have no views on MQA, but it’s great to hear a full blooded opinion.
I love his hackles rising at the mention of fixing masters.
Good on him.
As we say in the UK, he’s calling a spade a spade.

 

[ddk]

I have no views on MQA, but it’s great to hear a full blooded opinion.
I love his hackles rising at the mention of fixing masters.
Good on him.
As we say in the UK, he’s calling a spade a spade.

I thought it was an American saying.

david

 

[spiritofmusic]

Oscar Wilde and Charles Dickens used it first, so we’ll claim ownership this side of The Pond .

 

[C.A.P]

Its not much better than the 90 Lexican processors doing what they make you hear.. Give me a Sheffield Direct any day and you have what was meant to be heard good or bad !

 

[NorthStar]

He is not alone having that opinion; many other professional audiofiles in the music industry have a similar opinion.

Marilyn Manson is not my music thing. The writer of that article made a typo there...Marylin. :b

If I buy an album (vinyl) and in the back it says; encoded with MQA, that'll be the day, and I will buy a new phono stage with a MQA decoder. ;-)

MQA is not for the weakest music lovers, the audiophiles; it's for the 2017 digital music servers and Tidal and Roon and iPhone resolution masses. It's for improving the illusion. ...Marilyn Manson, really?!!

 

[Believe High Fidelity]

http://fairhedon.com/2017/11/05/an-interview-with-mastering-engineer-brian-lucey/

david

Thanks David. I needed this link for a few very confused clients

 

[ddk]

Thanks David. I needed this link for a few very confused clients

I know what you mean !

david

 

[KeithR]

and there are several remastering guys onboard. so what's that about then? guys like Ludwig and Massenburg aren't exactly slouches.

its also at AES now.

 

[JackD201]

I see MQA as a utility nothing more really. I do like Lucey's point, streaming the real file will only get easier in time as information infrastructure improves. So what is the problem? Is this really a long term solution?

That it is a way to get us to willingly accept DRM is intriguing indeed.

 

[Kefas]

I still have to hear an MQA file......

 

[NorthStar]

• http://www.2l.no/hires/
• https://davideliasblog.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/4-mqa-songs-to-try-free-cd-to-hi-res/