Originally Posted by Altus
I didn't think the follow up posts were too bad - much better than some sites, and Lavorna has attempted to answer a lot of pertinent questions (for those that want to understand the technicalities).
Yes, that is a fair summary. But there were a few responses along the lines of this:
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But still a question about how undecoded MQA will sound...
Submitted by DH on January 19, 2016 - 9:34am

At CA, at least one professional with significant DSP experience has analyzed the 2L files and come to the conclusion that when played back on non-MQA equipment, the MQA encoded files have LESS information and more noise (i.e., only the part of the file that isn't encoded gets played back) than the equivalent original file without MQA encoding.

Maybe, even if this is accurate, the MQA'd files on non-MQA HW will sound fine. But maybe they won't sound as good as they would have otherwise.

If that's so, it's a problem for Tidal. And I, like you, love Tidal.

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