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Mr. Darko may be missing a few facts...

Posted by Ivan303 (A) on January 12, 2017 at 07:58:05

In Reply to: best MQA Tidal Explanation I have read so far posted by bullethead on January 12, 2017 at 04:25:04:

At least as it was explained by Meridian's Bob Stuart at the 2015 RMAF when he says:

"Tidal's desktop app (Mac OS, Windows) will carry out the first unfold, even in the absence of an MQA DAC. In other words, a 24bit/48kHz MQA file streamed via the Tidal desktop app will reach the downstream DAC as a 24bit/96kHz file, whether that DAC is MQA-certified or not. And if the original studio master has a sample rate of 96kHz or less, you're not missing out on anything."

But then admits: "Actually, no. ANY DAC can play it. It just won't see the entire hi-res portion of the file that MQA's encapsulation has tucked away under the file's noise floor."

I seem to recall Mr. Stuart saying he didn't think we really needed all 24 bits (below the noise floor) so he used them do encode the extra samples between 48KHz and 96KHz and that why some still call it a 'lossey' codec.

But I could be wrong.




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