All good til the graphic equaliser bit? What do you mean?
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I'm theorising that MQA adds some sort of sophisticated EQ to the sound. So they didn't sit down and painstakingly remaster 600 albums, they just run them through MQA and they are equalised to sound 'better' when decoded via MQA.
Thing is that isn't technically the original recording. But then I suppose you could argue that any re-master isn't either. But I sort of draw a personal line at 'jazzing up' the sound. If that is what MQA does, I'm speculating here obviously.
Hmmm interesting, i thought that they have the masters and just compress them using the MQA algorithm, but i really am not sure,
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One of the claims is that with the old recordings, if they know which specific analogue to digital converter was used to make the digital master, they can correct for its deficiencies and this improves sound quality. But I've not read any proper explanation of how that works. There isn't one on the MQA video, old Bob basically says two things, it is a smaller file but it is still 'hi rez', no mention of the ADC thing.
Some info on the MQA format here:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinio...rmat-explained
Linked if for no other reason it has the phrase "audio beardies who only buy music from studio master portals that basically only sell jazz albums" in it.
Ok well that didnt explain anything we dont already know, hopefully someone can explain if the masters are actully the original studio recording masters being reformatted to a data transferable package, or is the MQA software adjusting eq and repackaging?
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not sure how you can hear any difference without the dac software installed. say it will just come out at 16 44 if you dont have it.?
No, it decodes in the pc application. There is an option to decode it in the DAC instead, Doesn't seem clear as to whether one way is better than the other, you need an MQA ready DAC of course.