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Old 01-23-2021, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by AVfile View Post
It would seem that way if you live in an area that has cheap, unlimited high-speed Internet service. If you consider that MQA was invented several years ago and not everyone in the world had unlimited Internet it seems pragmatic.
Sorry but I don't see anything pragmatic about MQA, regardless of the circumstances. FLAC - which is actually lossless - existed before MQA, which is a lossy compression scheme.

One of the things that always struck me odd about MQA is that is indeed lossy, yet it's marketed as getting you closer to the master tape. Those seem mutually exclusive to me, and seems to be part of why Neil Young recently removed his catalog from Tidal.

I know that some people are very enthusiastic about MQA. I can especially understand that for those in Canada and elsewhere who don't have access to Qobuz.
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