Here is a combination of posts I wrote attempting to explain the functionality of MQA to my non-technical friends at PFM:
Let's say you want to grow tulips in your yard. They need the sun, but only one diagonal corner of your yard (triangular shaped) gets sunny, and the other half is all shade.
MQA gardener seeds only the sunny side of the garden with bulbs and gets 100 tulips. LPCM gardener seeds the entire garden, but the tulips only grow on the sunny side, so he gets 100 tulips. So MQA is lossless for tulips (music), but LPCM gardner also has lots of unrisen bulbs (zeros).
Does this make sense? This is the very basis of MQA functionality, their core process. They don't plant (decode) where tulips (music) don't grow (exist).
Let's say you want to grow tulips in your yard. They need the sun, but only one diagonal corner of your yard (triangular shaped) gets sunny, and the other half is all shade.
MQA gardener seeds only the sunny side of the garden with bulbs and gets 100 tulips. LPCM gardener seeds the entire garden, but the tulips only grow on the sunny side, so he gets 100 tulips. So MQA is lossless for tulips (music), but LPCM gardner also has lots of unrisen bulbs (zeros).
Does this make sense? This is the very basis of MQA functionality, their core process. They don't plant (decode) where tulips (music) don't grow (exist).
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