No, that's what FLAC is. Pretty sure MQA is kind of lossy; and an unnecessary DRM format from a company that wants to become a parasitic leech on the whole industry.What's with the hate. I haven't heard any reasons why it's bad. It's like zip format for music.
To me @amirm, It sounded like it solved like 2 problems. One having to do with impulse response (i think) and making it easier to stream hifi saving resources.
I understand people's fears about the company, but doesn't it just compress and uncompress when you play through a mqa dac, saving bandwidth ect?
I want to find out whats wrong with ot...
Yes but streaming a flac file and a mqa is quite different as far as resources used.It involves licensing fees on both producer and consumer sides for an equivalent result that could be achieved for free. Ie., there's absolutely nothing wrong with 16/44.1kHz FLAC as an audibly transparent delivery mechanism.
Yes but streaming a flac file and a mqa is quite different as far as resources used.
Both problems imaginary to begin with. Here's a blind test conducted on the subject:
https://archimago.blogspot.com/2017/09/mqa-core-vs-hi-res-blind-test-part-ii.html
I understand people's fears about the company, but doesn't it just compress and uncompress when you play through a mqa dac, saving bandwidth ect?
I want to find out whats wrong with it...
If I read this result correctly, it clearly shows MQA can compete with Hi-res PCM.
I would really like to say yes... But ultrasonics (above 20KHz) is completely lossy (even they add garbage) and the content below 20KHz -with cropped bitdeph- will be just upsampled to "any rate". So no, isn't true 'Hi Res'.I understand people's fears about the company, but doesn't it just compress and uncompress when you play through a mqa dac, saving bandwidth ect?
I want to find out whats wrong with it...
The decoder core is provided by MQA for common systems (x86, ARM, XMOS). The ARM and x86 versions produce output identical down to the last bit. I haven't had an opportunity to examine an XMOS decoder. The computational resource requirements of the ARM decoder are far lower than what XMOS chips provide, so there is no reason for them to have reduced precision there.It depends on the certification requirement from MQA. Some codec vendors require very high level of matching against their own results. Some not.