Listening now to this stereo/mono CD.

[WBP]

Utopia - Oblivion

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Pre - Rod

 

[cbmmm3]

Anita, where have you been all my life......

 

[Perp]

Chesky Records - The Collection (1993)

 

[cbmmm3]

as I continue my foray ( and costly addiction ) into UHQCD and MQA ( with no means to decode ! ) , Here is an incredible one !!!!

 

[Perp]

as I continue my foray ( and costly addiction ) into UHQCD and MQA ( with no means to decode ! ) , Here is an incredible one !!!!

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How’s that one sound? I picked up the Marvin Gaye but haven’t listened to it yet. Yes, I can decode MQA via my OPPO UDP-205. I hear, but not sure how true it is, that MQA sounds worse undecoded over regular Redbook CD’s.

 

[cbmmm3]

How’s that one sound? I picked up the Marvin Gaye but haven’t listened to it yet. Yes, I can decode MQA via my OPPO UDP-205. I hear, but not sure how true it is, that MQA sounds worse undecoded over regular Redbook CD’s.

Id say its all about mastering. Im not decoding MQA and buying all the UHQCD / MQA discs my wallet will allow. Ive found a few that were not as good as the best Redbooks out there ( Rod Stewart, Asia ) but Ive found many that are remastered to an incredible level and are the best versions Ive ever heard. This one is along those lines....simply delicious....can only wonder how MQA would sound !

 

[cbmmm3]

the MQA sounding worse than redbook ? Fallacy. Again - its all in the remaster

 

[Perp]

the MQA sounding worse than redbook ? Fallacy. Again - its all in the remaster

But...

When someone plays back a MQA encoded disc without the first and second unfold, all they get is close to mp3 quality.

I’ll have to do more research on that one. Unless, Kal Rubinson can help us out here.

 

[cbmmm3]

An MQA CD is a Red Book CD and is 100% compatible with any existing CD player. The audio on the disc is MQA-encoded PCM, and will play back happily without a decoder. In this case, the sound quality is slightly better than a typical CD, because the audio is already de-blurred in the studio. However. if the bitstream is passed to an MQA decoder, it is unfolded to 176kHz (in this case) and rendered to the DAC at 24-bit.

 

[Perp]

An MQA CD is a Red Book CD and is 100% compatible with any existing CD player. The audio on the disc is MQA-encoded PCM, and will play back happily without a decoder. In this case, the sound quality is slightly better than a typical CD, because the audio is already de-blurred in the studio. However. if the bitstream is passed to an MQA decoder, it is unfolded to 176kHz (in this case) and rendered to the DAC at 24-bit.

Again, but...

What is REALLY going on there?!

 

[cbmmm3]

wonderful digitalness........dont sweat it. Listen and love

 

[jefe1]

I don't understand this either
I only have one MQA disc Rebecca Pigeon The Raven. My Oppo decodes it but I have no other version to compare to.
I read that some of the MQA discs are inferior to the older CD versions
The problem is you can overthink this and convince yourself one way or the other.

Isn't it simpler just to buy a high rez disc than some CD specially futzed with?

 

[Perp]

wonderful digitalness........dont sweat it. Listen and love

 

[WBP]

Starting a cold Sunday off with The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock n Roll

 

[cbmmm3]

Starting a cold Sunday off with The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock n Roll

I know, and I like it

 

[Quad Linda]

Herbie Mann & Sam Most Quintet UK CD

Meet the Beatles mono CD

Schizophrenia - Wayne Shorter w/Herbie Hancock & Ron Carter Dutch CD

Lightnin' Hopkins (s/t) all UK CD
Last night blues
Mojo Hand
Lightnin'

Birth of a Legend (live 61 & 62) - Streisand UK CD

Goats Head Soup disc 2

Romance in the Dark - Lil Green UK CD

Discs 1-3 of Elton's Jewel Box
Deep Cuts 1 & 2 and Rarities '65 - '68

 

[Beefalo]

Nils Petter Molvær – Streamer

"The lead trumpet barely manages to lift clear of the rhythms that are always threatening to engulf it.
Jazz has been buried beneath the landslide advance of techno.
The sound owes much to the devices and methods - programming, sampling, looping - of dance music and embraces the liberating potential of electronica"

 

[Beefalo]

Eivind Aarset – Électronique Noire

"Take some of Miles Davis "Gondwana" and mix with equal parts David Torn, Eno & Hendrix.
You get a musical stew of experimental and atmospheric soundscapes somewhere in the tension between jazz, psychedelic rock, ambient and electronics.
Despite being rhythmically charged, this is not warm or engaging music. Rather, it is detached, even alienated, and alienating"

 

[Beefalo]

AIR French Band ‎– Moon Safari

"Leave it to the French to turn retro-leaning lounge music into space-age scores. With their 1998 debut ‘Moon Safari,’ Air did just that.
This new incarnation of “chill-out” music in electronica was also decidedly analogue, a study in contrasts that felt both nostalgic and futuristic at the same time"