Meridian MQA

[Confused]

My post re MQA a couple of days ago was rather dismissive, but seeing the posts above I thought I'd try some of the MQA files per Flashman's link. First of all, it took only a few seconds to download a couple of MQA tracks, together with the 24bit non MQA equivalents, but best of all, one click and the files were playing without issue, in my case using JRiver / WASAPI. This is a big plus for me, so often anything new like this results in hours of frustration, messing around with settings, downloading plugins or whatever. This was simple, one click, music playing, good stuff. So no excuses for anyone else - give this a try and report back!

So what of the sound quality? Very good that is for sure. Was I "blown away" with the "not subtle differences" that Rodney mentioned? Well no, I wasn't to be honest, but I do think I get what Rodney is saying regarding realism, but for me the difference between MQA and "stock" FLAC was at most very subtle, but I guess I wasn't missing anything, considering the MQA files were smaller. I'm not sure I'm really in the mood for back to back comparisons today, but I will certainly be revisiting this one. Interesting.