23-Feb-2016, 22:14
MQA did up to now not explain what different levels of decoding is possible and their influence on sound quality . There are several threads on CA and one even collecting specific questions to Bob Stuart but MQA did not answer yet.
If you look at this site http://www.2l.no/hires/ you see that file sizes are significant larger than 16/44.1 (roughly 2/3 of 24/192). That may pose some problems when streaming hires files!
For me the most interesting aspect of MQA is its improved time behavior compared to other codings including the lack of pre/post-ringing (i wonder how Devialet is performing in that respect as I have not seen any relevant measurements). If that time domain behavior can be preserved through soft/firmware in digital sources like servers etc. MQA will be interesting. But if that requires specific hard or firmware in the DAC portion I expect to be out of luck with Devialet. Also any DSP like SAM or cross-over will make things less likely to work.
If you look at this site http://www.2l.no/hires/ you see that file sizes are significant larger than 16/44.1 (roughly 2/3 of 24/192). That may pose some problems when streaming hires files!
For me the most interesting aspect of MQA is its improved time behavior compared to other codings including the lack of pre/post-ringing (i wonder how Devialet is performing in that respect as I have not seen any relevant measurements). If that time domain behavior can be preserved through soft/firmware in digital sources like servers etc. MQA will be interesting. But if that requires specific hard or firmware in the DAC portion I expect to be out of luck with Devialet. Also any DSP like SAM or cross-over will make things less likely to work.
