In Reply to: You might have better luck if you didn't accuse people of fraud. posted by John Marks on January 16, 2016 at 15:21:36:
The word used was "hoax", not "fraud". These words have different meaning, at least in my dictionary. As I understand it, a "hoax" doesn't become a "fraud" until the mark who watched the shell game bits and shells out cash to play the game. I agree with the poster, but his use of "hoax" was a bit up front. I would have called it a typical "sales demonstration". These demonstrations are almost universally rigged by the promoters and this is not unique to the audio industry.
MQA is a CODEC. The proper way to evaluate this is by independent users, especially audiophiles and mastering engineers, to have hands on access to the encoders and decoders so that they can do comparisons of before and after sound quality on material that they chose, not material that can be artificially rigged to make the CODEC sound good. (If my goal were to show that MP3 320 Kb "improved" the sound of CD recordings on my playback system I am pretty confident that I could do so by careful selection of recorded material. Such a successful demonstration would not in any way show that MP3 is better than CD quality, just that I was skillful at rigging a demo. It is not uncommon that MP3 sound clips on download web sites create an impression of good sound that is not realized after purchasing the actual recording.)
Tony Lauck
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- RE: You might have better luck if you didn't accuse people of fraud. - Tony Lauck 01/17/1612:06:50 01/17/16 (16)
- RE: You might have better luck if you didn't accuse people of fraud. - Michael Lavorgna 12:12:45 01/17/16 (15)
- RE: You might have better luck if you didn't accuse people of fraud. - goldenthal 15:31:01 01/17/16 (0)
- RE: You might have better luck if you didn't accuse people of fraud. - Tony Lauck 12:24:07 01/17/16 (13)
- RE: You might have better luck if you didn't accuse people of fraud. - Michael Lavorgna 12:27:34 01/17/16 (12)
- RE: You might have better luck if you didn't accuse people of fraud. - goldenthal 15:36:11 01/17/16 (0)
- RE: You might have better luck if you didn't accuse people of fraud. - Tony Lauck 12:58:08 01/17/16 (10)
- RE: fraud: I Guess I Withdraw My Thanks (nt) - goldenthal 15:37:57 01/17/16 (0)
- RE: You might have better luck if you didn't accuse people of fraud. - Michael Lavorgna 13:00:55 01/17/16 (8)
- RE: You . . . fraud. With Respect, Oathhelping. (nt) - goldenthal 15:41:38 01/17/16 (0)
- RE: You might have better luck if you didn't accuse people of fraud. - Tony Lauck 13:08:20 01/17/16 (6)
- Why on earth do we need yet another DAC format? - E-Stat 15:58:50 01/17/16 (0)
- RE: . . . fraud.: Some As-yet-unwarranted Assumption Here (nt) - goldenthal 15:44:20 01/17/16 (0)
- RE: You might have better luck if you didn't accuse people of fraud. - Michael Lavorgna 13:11:47 01/17/16 (3)
- RE: You . . . .Unfounded Smearing Here (nt) - goldenthal 15:47:21 01/17/16 (2)
- Get the feeling you are being ignored? - Ivan303 16:35:39 01/17/16 (1)
- RE: Get the feeling you are being ignored? - goldenthal 16:42:04 01/17/16 (0)