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Some of that seems ridiculous to me.

The "the most authentic document of the original performance" is the final mix, which is obviously then mastered according to the wishes of the artist and/or producer/label. Apparently neither you nor anybody else that I'm aware of ascertained that Meridian/MQA somehow gained access to final mixes, or even more unlikely the unmixed tracks. Has Stuart actually claimed he received unmastered final mixes from artists/labels?

To me this all sounds very fishy. Unless MQA is paying labels/artists for access to un-mastered final mixes I don't know how the hell they're coming up with different masters unless they're simply taking the commercially released master and doing further EQ'ing to it. Dunno what the motivation would be for a label/artist to provide those mixes unless there's money in it for them. In theory I guess if a label/artist was unsatisfied with the master they used for commercial release and thought MQA would do a better job at mastering the final mix a second time for a newly mastered 2nd release of the same music.....maybe, but has anybody at MQA or a label/artist said that has occurred?

Philosophical objective? Yeah, that and a Metrocard will get ya on the subway. Of course there may be some things I'm misunderstanding, and I'm trying to keep an open mind about MQA. But like I said, so far, fishy.

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