gto88
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filed a ticket with iFi Support.
Well I do not believe, they will reply to this article. It is already quoted by the editor, they got a copy of before publishing and they confirmed they are not submitting any reaction.I wonder what the respons is of iFi on the, very well substantiated, critiques about MQA, that have come up recently:
https://www.computeraudiophile.com/...-of-controversies-concerns-and-cautions-r701/
Wonder if they even want to respond given the fact they already committed to it...
I believe also a MQA package of an original FLAC 192/24 will be certainly less quality than the underlying flac, but one has to bear in the mind, when it comes to streaming, the bandwidth required to stream the original flac makes the streaming not feasible, for now how it seems. SO when talking MQA as a platform to stream hifi audio, one can hardly beat it currently.
Well if you're right, then why nobody streams flac high res as a service? So far I am aware, tidal and qobuz are the best options currently....Well. The problem with bandwith is non-existing in 2018, assumed you live in a area where at least 25mbps internetconnection is availabe or 3G/4G for cellular connection.
Let's say a 24/96 song in FLAC is 150 MB over 5 minutes. An internetconnection would suffice if it could handle 150 / (5 (min) x 60 (sec)) = 0,5 MB/s. I assume every house/cellphone supports this bandwith
I could not see where an MQA file, which supposedly should be smaller, would offer a solution to this "problem"... Maybe 10 years ago...
I was initially too inspired by mr. Beekhuysen of MQA. But in the forum beneath the article, his opinions and "analyses" of MQA are pretty much invalidated.
In my opinion, he wants to believe. I do too... However, It looks to good to be true... Untill objective evidence proves the critics wrong, ofcourse.
I wonder what the respons is of iFi on the, very well substantiated, critiques about MQA, that have come up recently:
https://www.computeraudiophile.com/...-of-controversies-concerns-and-cautions-r701/
Wonder if they even want to respond given the fact they already committed to it...
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As a company, we're always about giving people options. As numerous and reasonable in as many products as possible. This is iFi audio since day one and with MQA (two firmwares, one with MQA enabled and one without) we did just that.
Instead of being vocal about stuff that's going on in the thread you've mentioned, we're very much into doing our thing and giving people options.
I think there is a solution for you now. I have started to use Audirvana. It does MQA unfolding now on local mqa files as well as on streamed ones over Tidal. You just set it up correctly in preferences and it works perfectly with the ifi! You can specify playback preferences for each device then so you can leave unfolding on Proj-Ject if you like to do so. And there is a fully functional 15 day trial you can use to test it.Finally figured it out.
Foobar has no ability to "unfold" MQA, not without a plugin which can
work as software decoder as "Tidal", but it can work with Pro-Ject S2D which is
a licensed MQA decoder.
Here is a link which explain it in detailed.
https://www.audiostream.com/content/mqa-decoding-explained
And this
http://audiophileheaven.blogspot.hu/