Originally Posted by Akimo
I'm afraid I can't remember the source, but I clearly remember an interviewer asking Bob Stuart about multichannel MQA for movies, and he replied with something along the lines of:

We don't think that will happen in the foreseeable future
I have spoken with him directly about MCH music and he has not replied in that form. I think that reply was regarding movies.

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From the context, I'm pretty sure he wasn't saying anything specific about multichannel MQA music, but I'm very sure I've never heard him refer to MQA and multichannel music in of the interviews I've seen or read.
He did reply to me that MQA can certainly incorporate MCH but that it was not a priority at the moment. Clearly, the priority is to establish MQA in the mainstream, i.e., stereo music. That said, Michal (Mytek) clearly indicated that he would try to get 2L to make MCH MQA files posted and also implied that they would be playable via a trio of Mytek Brooklyn DACs. This seems to indicate that MQA already accommodates MCH.


Last edited by Kal Rubinson; 2016-01-14 21:41.

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