Nick, that's exactly it - after the MQA part of the SE dem, I was ecstatic. Everything I've ever wanted from a hifi over the years is for it not to sound like one. There was simply no point afterwards in talking about treble sweetness, dynamics, texture in the bass, blah, blah. The only meaningful thing to talk about was the performance of the musicians as if it were real. Just stunning.

This does mean that a good MQA master is mandatory, I'm just fingers crossed now that the industry, and the rest of the world, recognise what a huge achievement it is, and how far it moves on the field of sound reproduction - wouldn't it be amazing if the superior format became de facto, for once?

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