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Blind Test

It could also mean that the test was not planned/designed sufficiently well, such that other variables/anomalies were introduced.

Just off the top of my head, it would seem that they need to use the same original file, recorded with a known high quality system, not two different "masters" (as MQA has apparently done) which would invalidate the whole point of the test. Encode/decode play one copy, and play the other copy untouched. Preferably, this would be done on the same monitoring system as the recording was made on. In other words: ONE variable.

I suspect that they will sound different. So, then the question becomes: Is the MQA encoded/decoded copy "better", or just different? Either way, if there's a difference, MQA has changed the sound, and that's not good.



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