jt25741
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Yeah but are those extra bit for a MQA decoder to read or are they really for a superior quality of the song, while not being MQA...
Note that what makes MQA really cool, and UAPP playback great for it, is that these 24/48Khz files are streaming FLAC and they are Hi-Res over and above CD/Red Book. As according to the MQA spec, these FLAC encodings are lossless and MQA data is noise at or below the noise floor. When the MQA subsonic noise (data) is decoded (unfolded), the resulting data is overlayed ontop of the original Lossless stream (This 2nd portion is lossy BTW). Consequently, playing the MQA streams is much better than CD just like 24/48Khz non MQA is better than CD (although the same people can argue that point that any of this matters). So I hunt for the MQA files and playback on the V20 without MQA decode and enjoy the experience accordingly. If I had a v30 or MQA capable decoder, it would sound even better of course.