Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion MQA - Related technology, products and music Thoughts on MQA after event at BlueVision - Marietta GA 6-12-15

Roland

I thought that too, I was less than impressed with what he had to say.

Russ

I thought the MQA rep conducted himself quite well. He was on a panel to discuss the state of high quality music, not to make a sales pitch. The major question was how to create a demand for higher quality music. Without a good answer to that, the market will still be small and Sony's high quality music initiative will be just as popular as their SACDs.

Hi Rolski
Agreed, the opportunity to maximise the MQA message was not taken.
Perhaps this was, so not to offend other panel members, such as HD Tracks etc., and end up in a fight.

Hector

Well, I just cancelled Tidal and completed the exit survey explaining that I was done until they implemented MQA. As far as I am concerned, if they do not implement it, they have nothing on Apple Music. And I would guess that eventually Sooloos will support Apple music...

If you see MQA as a benefit... then surely you must equally see the benefit of Tidal's Lossless service over Apple's Lossy Service??

And it's extremely doubtful that Apple will be partnering with any hardware manufacturer, aside from Sonos, due to it's high market penetration

Maybe there is a reason why Meridian start supporting Apple codecs?

You mean that when they started supporting AAC and ALAC back in 2011, that Meridian knew Apple were going to set up their own Streaming Music Service four years later... and wanted to be part of that??

Clairvoyance indeed!!

Is that when Sooloos core started supporting 24 bit ALAC?

How is 24bit ALAC support relevant to a service that only provides compressed 256kb/s 16/44 AAC??

Depends if you are speculating on Apple supporting MQA or not.

Does Apple *really* care about soundquality?

If it makes them more money at marginal costs...