28-Apr-2021, 14:35
(28-Apr-2021, 10:16)Confused Wrote: The first unfold does actually retrieve additional data that is "hidden" in the lower 8 bits of a 24 bit MQA file.
This is how I've understood MQA too and how Bob Stuart described it in the beginning.
When I downloaded (from Tidal) my first (and last) MQA album, "Fairytales" by Radka Toneff, it turned out to be a 16bit 44.1kHz "MQA CD", not the 24/48 version John Atkinson wrote about in Stereophile. Was it as good as the 24/48 version? I doubt it, but I never found out. I ended up buying the SACD and ripped the DSD layer in stead.
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