There’s now a part 2, if you feel like spending some more time:
There’s pure insanity going on surrounding this on various forums. The pro-MQA crowd is now engaged in trench-warfare trying to discredit the guy who posted these videos. Changed its tune to “well we never said it was lossless — it’s lossy but BETTER than lame old lossless!”. There’s an edit war going on in the Wikipedia MQA article.
If MQA was a nothing-burger that didn't add anything over lossless I would have just shrugged and kept using Tidal. Bit-perfect lossless is the goal.
Those videos suggest that MQA tracks generated from hi-rez masters actually harm the sound vs. just having a redbook FLAC. That is totally unacceptable.
I’m on the Qobuz trial, too. Playing through Audirvana, which gives 90 days. Enjoying the curated content, and it actually sounds better than Tidal to me. Too bad there’s no easy way to ABX, or I’d give it a shot.
Hah! Thanks. I've been working on my drinking and all I can say is I'm happy there is a bottle consistently restocked that is on clearance, and the guy who orders knows I'll always buy it all, so... Yeah. A couple of those per week seems to be about right.
Come on, didn't you read the marketing copy? By being lossy in weird obtuse ways, MQA is now better than lossless!
I'm watching this manufactured drama unfold with morbid fascination. I just wish I knew what problem MQA was supposed to solve. Want lossless? FLAC. Want compression? MP3, AAC, Vorbis. Is MQA a better lossy compression? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Just give the community enough resources to actually test it and prove it.
Remember that NAS/TV mount debacle from however many years ago? Some ...Synology? model shared the same # as a TV wall mount and NewEgg handled the situation in a spectacularly poor fashion.
Second round of Tedeschi Trucks Band shows on Nugs.net
https://www.nugs.net/live-download-of-tedeschi-trucks-band-the-fireside-sessions-encore-florida-ga-05-27-2021-mp3-flac-or-online-music-streaming/26491-WEBCAST.html
Thinking hard about a Hobie Getaway.
Been too slow on the used ones near me and the local dealers don’t have any tricks to deal with Hobie’s horrible supply chain.
Signed up for sailing lessons starting Th - excited about that!