Originally Posted by VirusKiller
I'm beginning to think that the original sample rate is somewhat irrelevant. Many of the 16/44.1 MQA releases, encoded from CD masters, are up there with the best HiRes that I've heard on SE loudspeakers.

Here you seem to diverge significantly from what Bob said at the launch of MQA, which was all about delivering the exciting benefits of high resolution. And on the MQA website the heads of Warner and Universal both enthuse about MQA enabling them to stream high resolution music. [As a sidenote meanwhile, Meridian continue to call themselves the pioneers of high resolution, whatever that means.] As we know, 16/44 is not high resolution.

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