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So MQA is now at a tipping point with Cloney doing their bit next weekend to help deliver audio nirvana finally to the masses, or at least those of us still with deep pockets . Will I be buying my music collection yet again in a promising music format? Perhaps not if streaming from a third party as is proposed and apparently working already. Guess the proposed demo in Blackrock will be a good way to learn more. Looks promising,Anyone heard this format as of yet?
Eoin.

Certainly worth checking out , it's receiving good press. Here's some guff about it ;

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/article ... threshold/

I'll take a trip over , maybe Saturday.
KM

And this isn't an April Fool's joke, right?
Got a link to the Cloney announcement about MQA demo?

http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=09c ... 6a0c9b1f39


Hope this works for you,,,,

I'm thinking of dropping into this tomorrow - any reports yet?
Come on the twittering classes, don't you know that you should be tweeting your every thought :)

I visited Cloney's this morning to get my first listen to MQA. Strapped for time I was able to listen to a couple of familiar tracks streamed via Tidal in regular CD quality and from an MQA processed version via Bluesound . Both sounded good and the MQA versions had a very realistic feel . The impressive factor of Bluesound is that it can decode MQA and deliver it to your existing DAC if it's streaming from Tidal or downloaded.
Well worth a visit.
KM

Ken Moreland wrote:I visited Cloney's this morning to get my first listen to MQA. Strapped for time I was able to listen to a couple of familiar tracks streamed via Tidal in regular CD quality and from an MQA processed version via Bluesound . Both sounded good and the MQA versions had a very realistic feel . The impressive factor of Bluesound is that it can decode MQA and deliver it to your existing DAC if it's streaming from Tidal or downloaded.
Well worth a visit.
KM

Ah, pity - is the source different for each?
Invalidates any comparison, IMO, if we can't listen to non-MQa & MQA of the same track, through the same device - Cloney knows that, I'm sure

Heard it this morning. Very impressed.


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Ken Moreland wrote:I visited Cloney's this morning to get my first listen to MQA. Strapped for time I was able to listen to a couple of familiar tracks streamed via Tidal in regular CD quality and from an MQA processed version via Bluesound . Both sounded good and the MQA versions had a very realistic feel . The impressive factor of Bluesound is that it can decode MQA and deliver it to your existing DAC if it's streaming from Tidal or downloaded.
Well worth a visit.
KM

It wasn't exactly a great comparison with all other variables matching. I asked him what he had in MQA format that I knew well and he tried to match it from Tidal all through the Bluesound Node. Nonetheless the MQA version was excellent in it's own right. Best to take a trip round to Cloney's , I thought it was impressive.
KM

I went along and there seemed a reticence to do A vs B with the same tracks, certainly it wasn't set up to facilitate that and Ivan couldn't do it.

The chap from blue sound could to a certain degree, and Sultans of Swing 16 bit through Tidal was certainly bettered substantially by MQA. I regularly stream with Tidal so know what to expect with this vs hi-Res or 16 bit local. There was something extra going on here.

Definitely worth going along to, I went a sceptic, left, if not quite a believer, certainly more open to this being on my Hifi map.


SJB