There are many people like Mike in NY who can't hear or appreciate MQA
I still hear quite well, thank you, but I do not appreciate MQA at all.
they measure music quality in graphs and specs.
I've never done any such thing, I've got no graphs or specs by which I measure music, in fact I've not ever tried to measure music, and I've got no measurement gear nor any inclination to use measurement gear.
Can you measure the taste of good wine in graphs and specs? this is subjective.
Certainly the appreciation of sound quality is at least somewhat subjective, I've never said otherwise.
Personally, when I listen to MQA I prefer it to LP's.
Fantastic, I guess LPs are the ultimate barometer then! As set forth by whom?
Hearing unlike vision which can be corrected with glasses or surgery cannot be remedied.
Though in some cases a hearing aid can help, but I'm not in need of that, my hearing is tested every few years by my physician, and not because I've asked him to do it. He's an ENT and it's part of that medical specialist checkup.
Sir you make some ridiculous assumptions here, one being that I'm hard of hearing, and another being I only "measure music" as opposed to listen to it. Both assertions are patently false, however I'm not worried others might think you are on to something there, as you'd of course have absolutely no way of knowing one way or the other.
While I don't measure music, I do have a pretty good BS meter, and it measures off the charts with regard to the absolute nonsense lies as set forth by the MQA cadre from day one, all of which have been fully debunked long ago by now with no credible response from MQA whatsoever.
My real objection to MQA beyond just calling/out exposing their outright lies and straight up BS marketing-speak, is that their scheme as revealed in both interviews with MQA, and described in their patent application, fully admits they sought to control every aspect of the music distribution business and extract a tax in the form of licensing fees at each stop, thereby limiting consumer choice and raising prices. Additionally, the patent contains a DRM mechanism.
No I'm not in favor of a solution in search of a problem that raises costs for consumers, all based on complete and utter BS. I'm sorry you've had the wool so easily pulled over your eyes in all of this, you sound like an MQA fanboy with money invested in hardware that will now likely go quickly obsolete once MQA is gone. You can take some solace in the 300 or so albums that were already MQA encoded will likely be available on TIDAL for some time to come, but industry sources have already confirmed there will likely not be any more albums encoded in MQA ever again, that process has been stopped for now, and I for one hope it is never restarted.
TIDAL is also in poor financial health, with year-over-year top line revenue down almost 38% between 4Q21 and 4Q22, a rather precipitous drop from $55.7 million to $38 million. Even though their parent company Block has the resources, it doesn't look likely that TIDAL is in any position to be a white knight for MQA, more likely they drop it within about a year.
Cheers!
