Originally Posted by Rodney Gold
the improvements I heard were a lot to do with sound staging and imaging .. undecoded.. so I'm not sure headphones are the best test...
This is very interesting. Should we then draw the conclusion that MQA doesn't perform as well in headphones as with loudspeakers?

If the conclusion is correct I would say that MQA has failed to some degree to bring us better sound/listening experience.

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