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Please stop Jim, you are embarrassing yourself

1) You point to an article from 12 years ago. It is clear to me that the overall quality of Stereophile has declined in those 12 years.

2) To draw a false equivalency between MQA and the Intelligent Chip is beyond ludicrous - except for the fact that the explanations for both defy reasonable logic.

But the fact is that nobody forced anybody to buy the IC, and it had no impact on anything else in the listener's system, nor the way that music is distributed and purchased.

MQA, on the other hand, if successful will lead to total corporate control over the way that music is distributed and rented. There is absolutely nothing to stop the greedy record labels from discontinuing the sale of all digital music - physical formats or downloads - once they are making enough money from renting.

Once they are only renting digital files, there is nothing to stop them from continually raising prices and continually adding more and more restrictions on how the music may be played, and on which devices - all of which is built in to MQA.

Look before you leap, lest you end up permanently damaged - like my friend who dove into an empty swimming pool head first.

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