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In Reply to: RE: There is this: posted by Charles Hansen on October 18, 2017 at 02:09:10:
Actually Charles, I was implying a far more damaging message than that.Your interpretation of my prior message was merely one of the effects but my implication was intended to be about a far more damaging cause.
Maybe we should be thankful for the introduction of MQA. Maybe the high-end sector needed a hoax and fraud of this magnitude to finally have enough ammo to expose just how perverted and distorted and empty the leaders of high-end audio have been over the years. How empty they've been with little or no real expertise at least when it comes to real performance and real levels of musicality from a playback perspective. I'm sure many of us know at least a few reviewers who couldn't punch their way out of a musical bag if their lives depended on it.
But ultimately, it's the mainstream high-end enthusiasts to blame because of their inability or lack of desire to discern what they hear and subsequently what they read. Which is really the only way to protect ourselves from the charlatans. But we've made ourselves easy prey for them. As a result, instead of them leading us down a path toward far greater performance potential, they led us down the money path. That is, money for them. Yes, trying to play both sides of the fence is a tough job. And requires about 10 times more energy too - for them and for those trying to follow them.
But this charade of theirs has gone on far too long and it's time some of us started calling a spade a spade.
FWIW, back in 2014 and 2015 I've posted numerous comments in this and other forums warning people of this MQA fraud initiated by Meridian and Stuart and propagated by Harley and Atkinson and a small host of others. There I explained in hopefully just enough detail how MQA or any high-rez format for that matter could never produce the outlandish and absurd performance results they were claiming. But ultimately because I know for a fact Stuart and co. weren't even barking up the right technology tree to achieve that kind of performance impact. And no I've never listened to an MQA recording nor do I have to. Besides, if I did, I'm sure it would just piss me off to no end.
Besides the MQA horse already let out of the barn, the other thing I find so regrettable is that some good-natured well-intended enthusiasts and professionals alike have spent / wasted so much of their precious time dissecting MQA to look for the meat and potatoes. Well, that and the fact that Stuart and co. are already making money on their fraud and potentially further destroying an industry while others are chasing their tails around the mulberry bush.
From a performance perspective, Meridian was never more than a middle-of-the-road mfg'er and Stuart is nothing more than a charlatan and MQA is snake oil. And because they used "performance" i.e. Master Quality Authentication as their primary selling feature to dup the masses that makes Meridian, Stuart, and MQA a fraud. Plain and simple.
And that obviously doesn't speak well for anybody who either unknowingly or intentionally propegated that fraud.
On another note, I've read a number of your posts here regarding this subject matter and I'm thankful and I commend your willing to sacrifice your good standing in high-end audio in order to expose what you know can't be right. That says much about your character as a man and as a mfg'er. Thank you.
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Follow Ups
- Did I really say that? - stehno 10/19/1700:02:49 10/19/17 (1)
- RE: Did I really say that? - Frihed89 15:54:16 11/2/17 (0)
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