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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.

This looks like fun. Picking up Kasia’s new Hobie Lynx.

Left Tidal for Qobuz a long time ago. Qobuz has real hi-rez.

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.

RETIRED!!!

Like many Stephen King stories, it deals with the supernatural, but it's more mystery than anything else.

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.

Just added Qobuz trial, will play for the 30 days via Roon and go from there.....

Happy belated birthday (missed the thread) and welcome to the 40+ club. (del Toro voice) As your attorney, I advise you to start drinking heavily.

Really enjoyed this one,.. some off beat acting kept me hooked!

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.

The Outsider. Limited series, based on a Stephen King book.

It holds up well.

Civilized Jack London State Park picnic

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!

didn’t get the mamba, guy never replied. Did get the juice. i’ll have to get better to use that.