Meridian MQA

[amabrok]

I just don't think this is going anywhere. To the average customer it's just all the same. MP3, FLAC, MQA, DSD, PCM, AIFF, WAV, etc. The average consumer doesn't care about the how's. They just care about cheap/free music. Therefore it's not profitable to change anything with regards to fancy encoding (heck, even the artists themselves don't care how awfull their music sounds, SQ wise), it'll just cost more to encode music with MQA, so studio's won't use it. Perhaps a very few Audiophile labels will think about it, but that won't be enough to give this any momentum. Just my 2 cents.

I agree with most of what you said Eddye

but i am still hopeful that something might spring out of this and provides the niche of audiophile with another mean to access high sound quality.

we are all cursed in a way by the fact that very few people/labels/producers/artists care about SQ.

some may argue that they listen to music not SQ, but i would argue that systems/listening environment/SQ are vehicles serving music to us and without them one won't be able to live the experience as initially intended.