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Looks like MQA CDs will be available MQA CDs soon!!

Very interesting, I need one of these to feed my hungry 808v6.

Yes, that's a great move. The physical media business needs a boost and this could very well be it.
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The sceptics are in their straight away in the comments. But all they have to do is buy two discs and make a comparison. Vested disinterest comes to mind....

Of course we now need CD players that detect the MQA signal. Presumably current M spinners would upsample and destroy the MQA data?

I thought it said a standard CD player connected to an MQA DAC and analog or SE DSP's would fully decode and render the MQA file?

Russ

That's my point, Russ. Any CD player used needs to deliver bit perfect to the DAC or the MQA gets destroyed.

Sorry, not fully awake, does the CD player have to have a blue LED

Russ

Just the DAC!

From what I have seen on the Mytec Brooklyn DAC you can have various colours, not limited to blue.

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Shaun

That's great, the rest of us need an MQA DAC. Director upgrade due...

Yes, this is great news indeed!

I had been searching for the CES post somewhere a while back (never could find again) with Bob mentioning that MQA could also be applied to CD's. I can't quote it exactly but he did state "wait until you hear it on CD's".

I am not really looking to renew my CD collection but ownership does have it's advantages. The companies that have the tunes now that have come aboard hopefully are the ones Bob did not mention and maybe Sony also may dip in their toe to test the waters with physical media being now touted.