Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Meridian Quality Authenticated - It's Snake Oil, until it's not

MQA 


Update: After a lot of reading, MQA is NOT lossless. What a shame.
A full treatment is available from this post at Benchmark Media

In fact, it's such a good and thorough post that I'm going to delete the rest of my original posting and let it speak for itself. 

I will also add that you can listen to MQA files and compare them to the originals via the 2L test site here. 

After listening for a while with a Mytek Brooklyn DAC I can honestly say I hear no difference between an MQA file which claims 384k to the "merely" PCM 96k/24 bit files. 

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