In Reply to: RE: MQA questions posted by Michael Lavorgna on January 17, 2016 at 14:31:36:
The only "hoax" part is that it can automatically make up for deficiencies in recordings. However, the fact that it is being promoted as doing this is enough for me to dismiss its promoters as scammers, especially those who know enough not to fool themselves, you know, people who are Fellow of the AES.
As an effective way to squeeze more subjective quality into a 44/24 container I have no problem, except that there is no point in doing this because bits are cheap these days. The only possible case where bandwidth is scarce today is for streaming applications, and most people who stream music do so as background music, rather than critical listening and there is no need for extra resolution in the first place. Ten years ago, or so, when Stewart came up with his ideas for this style of perceptual compression bandwidth was much more costly and there might have been some economic benefit from this technology. That day is long past.
Tony Lauck
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