Comparison of PCM and MQA

Audio Gear Talk MQA
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A honest comparison between PCM and MQA : :+1:

https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/mcmriq/testing_mqa_is_it_worse_than_flac/?ref=share&ref_source=embed&utm_content=body&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_name=7f405a34016a4ca6841fb016efd6eb9f&utm_source=embedly&utm_term=mcmriq

Conclusion (last paragraph)

All testing so far shows that MQA is nothing more than a minimum phase upsampling filter, which is arguably WORSE than a linear phase filter that most decent DACs or upsampling players will use as standard.

MQA is 100% closed-source, and they go to great lengths to make it impossible to directly compare files that have not been altered. Most MQA content cannot be obtained in native HiRes anywhere. And they do not allow any “full unfolding” device to have a digital output to prevent anyone from recording or testing the result.

I marked some parts in bold, because that is exactly the same what I have been telling here several times here.

You can select such a filter yourself for any PCM and it will also sound like MQA, only crisper because you apply it on lossless pcm and not on lossy mqa.

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