Comparison of PCM and MQA

Wow. I’d be the first to admit that I don’t understand all the technical detail in the video, but it makes a compelling case. I’ll be interested (genuinely) in how the pro-mqa brigade explains this, hopefully without just resorting to subjective claims about perceived sound quality.

It’s hard to know but concerns about mqa seem to be growing, on this forum, in other forums, in YouTube comments, and elsewhere. I wonder if this starts to affect Tidal in any meaningful way. Or even Roon - how sustainable is it to claim audiophile credentials if one of your two streaming services is demonstrably lossy.

If mqa doesn’t offer better sound quality then I don’t see what it offers. It just doesn’t seem to serve any purpose.

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