If you’ll notice, my post was not a response to you.
How are we supposed to know this if you post a comment right after @wolf’s post? But now I’m curious. Who WERE you replying to? Because NONE of the people who posted something today said “they didn’t like MQA”…
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Digital artefacts have nothing do do with the original or intended performance (unless they do) So correcting digital artefacts is what high res and MQA is all about. Not altering the original intent in the studio.
MQA would not do anything to the music that would harm it. I believe you can have as much or little de blurring as you like. That’s an artistic choice if an artist wants the artefacts and in some styles of music may even be desired.
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That’s just not true at all.
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They may or may not have good reasons to like or dislike MQA, but if you dislike it, why allow the process to be applied to the music. It’s not compulsory last time I heard.
MQA does not erase previous releases which are all available.
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If you post something right after someone else’s post, it can be expected from you that your comment is related to said post. If it there’s no logical connection, you need to say that explicitly to prevent misunderstandings.
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That’s why the people who put more effort into their writing get supported a lot more by other users.
No, I was obviously talking about this discussion. That’s exactly what I meant by “logical connection”.
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In this thread 60 and 70 year old Roonies behave like kids who just entered kindergarden and have to learn basic social interaction. But then maybe it is a certain mental degradation towards end of life?
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Chris, @H.Pesch is 100% correct. I wasn’t talking about plagiarism or the legal consequences of it. And I was talking about why the vast majority of us recording artists and sound engineers don’t like the idea of getting our approved masters “fixed” or “perfected” by MQA. This doesn’t make us “anti-MQA” per se.
Yet so many are released, and I’m certain not without consent. So, maybe you and yours do not like or want it. You do not have to do it.
I expect you all love working with MP3 though…
There are definitely lots of MQA albums available on Tidal where the mastering engineer(s) didn’t authenticate anything. This also includes at least two albums you recommended on the “What we are listening to…” thread. I know that for sure because I was involved in both productions.
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Well, they are sounding great or I wouldn’t have posted them. So hardly a slap in the face as someone else said.
The MQA would not have been a remaster anyway, otherwise it would have been listed as such and remaster engineers in the credits.
That’s another thing I notice about MQA, in the main the credits are full and detailed. That’s very helpful in Roon and for the contributors to the original work.
As always, the decision makers get to decide so you should take up the argument with them as I have no influence.
Thanks a lot. I couldn’t agree more.
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I mostly do classical and jazz. More than 95% of the projects I’ve been involved in over the past five years or so are available as HiRes, but probably less than 15% as MQA. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not bitter or anything. On the contrary, I count myself lucky to have a well-paid job that I really, really love.
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Your avatar is a favourite piece of mine. It was the first time a piece of art moved me. In fact it hit me in the solar plexus. I have since had a different relationship to art, including my own artwork.
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Sound quality aside, what about the proprietary lock-in? The pros of MQA are that you get this stream of music that you might not get any other way. The cons are that you now need special hardware or software to unlock it. If it’s streamed music, it really doesn’t matter; you unlock it now and enjoy it now. But if it’s purchased music, you are taking a risk that you won’t be able to open it in the future. Wether that is an investment worth making is up to the purchaser. But we aware, you do not own the contents of the file, if you are not given the tools to unlock it.
Sheldon
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If I did not stream I would probably not be able to afford to buy all the music I now enjoy, MQA or not.
I do buy physical media but that is usually direct from the artist nowadays. Charity shops are swamped with CD’s these days as people en mass are just not playing them any more so you can pick up some bargains. There is a lot of So So stuff there though, that I wouldn’t buy at any price.
We live in a streaming world and we are all going to have to adapt, but if a piece of music is that important to you… Buy it, Rip it, Roon it…
How’s that for a T Shirt slogan 
What bothers me greatly about the take over of streaming is the same fear I had long before streaming.
It was evidenced to me by the builders who built this room in 2012. I always had my music playing and the amount of times the builders, younger and older, stopped to listen because they hadn’t ‘heard music like that before’ or ’ I have that but it doesn’t sound like that’.
I didn’t want to talk down to them nor appear snobbish. I explained that the reason being was that they were listening to MP3s on their iPods or whatever and therefore most of the music was gone. They understood that straight away because they were listening to the complete uncompressed song and thru a stereo. I did NOT explain that they were also listening through 0000s worth of kit.(One of the youngest asked me what the Pro-Ject turntable did!)
The manager of Tesco, although they are selling vinyl now, are to stop selling discs. We were talking about DVDs etc at the time but they do little in the way of CDs and this is a large Tesco. Mark explained that they just were not selling as most people streamed.
Really? Okay I know that Netflix and Amazon Prime and Apple are not expensive.
However, the equipment needed and the broadband provider are not cheap at all. I have not added up my monthly fees for what we have but know it is well over £100.
Most DVD player manufacturers no longer do high end ones. The two highest, as far as I am aware, are the Panasonic UMP 9000 and the Sony 1100ES, the Sony lacks HDR10 or DV or both. The Panny has it all. Neither have ‘audiophile’ sound.
I guess my fear is that good quality sound and vision are going to disappear for the sake of ease and profit. I saddens me to see people walking around with their ears filled with music from their phones or Nanos or whatever. I also seriously bothers me from a safety pov. There is no way I would walk around wearing headphones listening to music. The only place I did that, and it took a while to get used to it, was in the gym using the skiing thing or treadmill or step machine.(When I could walk.)
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People like and want different things for different reasons. A lot of people just want to listen to popular music for $10 per month and don’t have thousands of dollars to spend on music systems, or have other priorities. Many people, including myself, don’t want to own any physical media. It’s all good.
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