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Post by ncred02 on Dec 7, 2014 10:26:45 GMT -5
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Post by Loop 7 on Dec 7, 2014 10:42:01 GMT -5
It's breaking news and I'm hoping it's not over hyped. Sounds incredibly intriguing.
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Post by sharky on Dec 7, 2014 10:43:21 GMT -5
Re-heated news I'd say. Meridian have been developing this for years, I remember seeing their flyers publicizing this in audio shows.. oh, I don't know, well over 5 years now perhaps. It seems it's coming out finally. Let's see how it goes. Not too much hope from my side if, as the article states, it would involve a whole new technology to be used since the recording to the mastering, etc. I don't see all the recording/mastering studios investing in some new proprietary technology just because. |
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Post by hemster on Dec 7, 2014 10:53:36 GMT -5
Robert Harley stated the following about his experience with Meridian Quality Audio (MQA):
I am looking forward to learning more about MQA.
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Post by djreef on Dec 17, 2014 15:41:16 GMT -5
They'll have to get the studios and the content providers/media players to line up for this, or it's a dead in the water niche product.
I'm cautiously optimistic.
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Post by vneal on Dec 18, 2014 8:53:03 GMT -5
Meridian makes State of the Art equipment. I have only owned one piece of gear from them--- a 508 CD player. I still think it was more musical than any modern multi format player. Getting the industry to back a new format when you are not one of the giants like Sony or Samsung is tough. Good luck Meridian but son't hold your breath
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Post by vneal on Dec 18, 2014 8:54:14 GMT -5
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Post by KeithL on Feb 13, 2015 17:11:44 GMT -5
From their explanation, it sounds like their stream includes a "core", which is stored losslessly at CD quality, and which can be played directly by any player that doesn't incorporate their proprietary decoder. In addition to that core, they are including more information which, when combined with the core information by their decoder, will produce a resulting output that "contains all of the useful musical information contained in the high resolution original". They seem rather specific that both the core and the additional "musical information" are stored losslessy, but that the space required to store them in is created by "using data areas previously occupied by areas of the spectrum that contain only random noise". (Since true lossless reproduction requires that every bit be stored and reproduced, whether you agree that what it contains is "useful" or not, then their overall method is technically NOT lossless.) Assuming that their information is complete, this will give you the choice of having either true CD-quality lossless audio (with no special decoder required), or well thought out (but lossy compressed) high-resolution audio via their proprietary decoder. Of course, they're claiming that the encoded version will give you all of the musical advantages of high-res reproduction, and avoids the serious sonic degradation introduced by other lossy forms of compression (like MP3 and AAC). Quite aside from all that, they also claim that their encoder (or the decoder) does some post processing to make your digital audio content sound better than it originally did by repairing "some of the time smear introduced by typical A/D converters". (Note that Dolby offers a very similar sounding feature with the "apodizing upsampling encoder" option in the new v2.0 of their Professional Encoder.) Robert Harley stated the following about his experience with Meridian Quality Audio (MQA): I am looking forward to learning more about MQA. |
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