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RE: You haven't been paying attention...

>"In almost 40 years of attending audio press events, only rarely have I
>come away feeling that I was present at the birth of a new world." JA
>
>A fair reading of [RH's and JA's statements] would lead one to believe most
>music lovers will detect a drastic improvement.

With respect, you are quoting my comment out of its context. The "new world"
didn't just refer to sound quality, which was indeed excellent in the December
2014 demonstration I wrote about in the linked article. (Note that this was
3 years ago, not the 4 years that others keep saying.) First, as the title of the
article says the first part of the "new world" involved the benefit MQA
encoding offered streaming. Second, the more general point was that MQA's
approach to digital audio data encoding, reducing all the stages between
the input of the A/D converter to the output of the D/A converter to a
transparent "pipe," was a back-to-first-principles approach that I found
elegant in the extreme. If this works as claimed, this would indeed be a
new world and Jim Austin's series of articles in Stereophile will examine
each part of the approach.

John Atkinson
Technical Editor, Stereophile

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