Meridian MQA

[Pim]

A nice balanced debate about the pros and cons of MQA took place at RMAF 2018.  A degree of sarcasm there, but I believe that a balanced debate was the plan, the MQA execs and associates present had other ideas...

Well worth a view if you are interested and have 40 minutes to spare.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSv0lcHlawk

Thanks for that link Confused. That's 42 minutes of my life I'll never get back  

Pim - Please accept my sincere apologies for your wasted 42 minutes.  If I am ever in your area, I will buy you a beer as compensation.  Although in fairness, I think it becomes pretty apparent in the first 5 minutes where the presentation is heading, but in case this is not obvious, for others viewing I can confirm that after the first 5 to 10 minutes, the following 30 or more do not get much better.

I also think a bit of explanation is in order.  Those heckling the presentation are either senior MQA personnel, or in a couple of cases members of a closed Facebook group run by MQA, who's members appear on forums sometimes promoting MQA but more often attacking those that dare to criticise MQA.  Personally I would prefer a reasoned technical debate, it is quite enlightening to see what is going on though, if a little sad.

For those interested in a decent MQA technical debate, look elsewhere!

Confused, all in good spirits mate (Cognac, whiskey, rum)   No need to apologise but I'll never knock back free beer.
It was indeed quite clear in the first five minutes this was a train about to de-rail but for some reason I still watched the lot of it.

I'm not sure what to make of this now. It's clear the MQA crew weren't happy with Chris Connaker's presentation but there was so much mud throwing going on that it was too hard to work out who to believe. One fact remains; MQA have not yet accepted the challenge to convert a real high resolution file into MQA and let it be reviewed by anyone who's critical of MQA. There's also not one song I know about that's actually been recorded in MQA as a master. So if the propaganda that lots of mastering engineers are behind MQA is true, then why don't they use it?