Audio quality vs convenience

[GuillaumeB]

[Not sure where is the right place to put this thread, but this seemed best.  Perhaps we need a section for "things of interest, not directly related to Devialet"?]

This post from Archimago's Musings caught my eye, partly because it starts off discussing the weird "underwater" diagram PONO invented (which amabrok started a thread about some time back) and then turns to the quality/convenience diagram invented by Meridian to promote MQA.

In general I agree with Archimago's argument and the re-worked version of Meridian's diagram.  What do you think?

Great, thanks for sharing! I think the re-worked diagram is pretty much spot on.. well I haven't heard reel to reel so I'll have to take his word for that bit.

I still find quite a chasm between CD quality FLAC and lossless streaming services, this might be partly due to my choice of streamer though which is optimised for MPD-only playback and as a result makes streamed FLAC from my NAS sound magnificent. 

Speaking of MQA my local dealers have the Meridian kit next week so I'm hoping to go and have a listen. I really want to compare a regular HD track to an MQA one, as opposed to MP3 v MQA which seems to be their standard demo! 

Guillaume