MQA bails on RMAF

[essjay]

The other point of merit is over on SHTV, a lot of the people commenting on MQA are professional audio engineers, they make music for a living, its how they put food on the table and even they are saying its a scam....

[JBT]

Here's a warning from Charles Hansen of Ayre Acoustics.




Be careful what you wish for. If MQA is widely adopted, I can assure you that "this little bit of DRM" will grow to unrecognizable proportions.

As publicly held companies, the legal mandate of the record labels is to maximize their profits. Look what they did with vinyl in 1989 - at that time there were dozens of independent record labels. And even though LP constuted 1/3 of all sales (cassette was 1/3 and CD was also 1/3), they were able to do an under-the-table collusion to pull the plug on LP. All vinyl was gone. The only reason they are reintroducing it now is because people will pay $30 a pop and it is "pirate-proof".

It'n not hard to see that if MQA ever becomes established that the labels will drop both high-res *and* CD, both of which can be pirated. In that scenario you will not only need to replace your hardware with MQA-compatible equipment, but they will stop selling discs altogether and only allow streaming (renting). There will be no limits to the prices they charge, and there will be no limits to how much undecoded MQA files are degraded. Just look at the MQA patent applications to understand their true intentions.

If they did it all at once, it would be instantly rejected by everybody. But if they sneak it in, piece-by-piece (first under the guise of "improved sound quality for no increase in your rental fees"), they can slowly screw the consumer once it is established.



https://www.audioasylum.com/forums/c...s/8/88221.html

[Still-One]

How can a guy who makes good gear by such a duffus.

[GSOphile]

You may not agree with him, but IMO Charlie Hansen is no duffus.

[Garytn]

Originally Posted by GSOphile

You may not agree with him, but IMO Charlie Hansen is no duffus.

+1

[Blueoak]

We should all write a letter to our favorite manufacturers and tell them to stay away from MQA.

Anything where royalties and licenses are required to use technology always kills it.

FLAC is just fine.

[Still-One]

Originally Posted by Blueoak

We should all write a letter to our favorite manufacturers and tell them to stay away from MQA.

Anything where royalties and licenses are required to use technology always kills it.

FLAC is just fine.

Why don't you write letters to stop DSD DAC's too?

[Still-One]

Originally Posted by GSOphile

You may not agree with him, but IMO Charlie Hansen is no duffus.

Sorry. Correction not a duffus but Chicken Little. The Sky is Falling.

[Mikado463]

Originally Posted by Still-One

Sorry. Correction not a duffus but Chicken Little. The Sky is Falling.

Jim the picture you posted ...... was he to be the poster child for 'Hershey Kiss' ?

[bigblue]

Just to put all the interesting opinions in this threat into context. It would be interesting to know how many have heard an actual A/B demo with proper MQA equipment.
I have just been to a MQA demo - but they did not play the original file, so I can´t really compare yet.