Tidal’s New Lossless Tier Says Goodbye to MQA

Good riddance. Must have been my "comment" as to why I unsubscribed from Tidal to which I answered "MQA" :)
 
Puma Cat said:
It's the quality of the mastering that matters most, anyway.
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True and how it’s treated afterwards. Run a great recording through a crappy A2D or master it in a way that degrades it and you end up with a less than stellar result.

Get the musicians in the same room, record to tape, press it to vinyl and enjoy the magic!

We need some more retro ways. Tube consoles, tape. The way so many great albums were recorded. No auto tune, compressed, speed manipulated garbage.


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Mike said:
True and how it’s treated afterwards. Run a great recording through a crappy A2D or master it in a way that degrades it and you end up with a less than stellar result.

Get the musicians in the same room, record to tape, press it to vinyl and enjoy the magic!

We need some more retro ways. Tube consoles, tape. The way so many great albums were recorded. No auto tune, compressed, speed manipulated garbage.


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And just as many crappy recordings were made using those techniques.
 
i agree, the first order affect by far is the recording quality + techniques and the mastering...

i would rather listen to a great quality recording over two-tin-cans-and-string than i would a poor recording through mike's reference system!!

;):D
 
Mike said:
...Get the musicians in the same room, record to tape, press it to vinyl and enjoy the magic!

We need some more retro ways. Tube consoles, tape. The way so many great albums were recorded. No auto tune, compressed, speed manipulated garbage.
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so true -- this is the exact process used by dave rawlings and gillian welch ...and, the result prove this out -- especially(!) getting the musicians in the same room.
 
Let’s get our ducks in the right order.
The most important thing is the quality of the musicianship. That is, the artist, the orchestra, the performance.
How it was recorded and the mastering comes in second place.
If you prefer a top notch recording with lousy musicianship over a top notch performance with amazing artists, then you are just an audiophile.
 
nicoff said:
Let’s get our ducks in the right order.
The most important thing is the quality of the musicianship. That is, the artist, the orchestra, the performance.
How it was recorded and the mastering comes in second place.
If you prefer a top notch recording with lousy musicianship over a top notch performance with amazing artists, then you are just an audiophile.
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But wasn't that part of Holt's Law...the better the recording, the worse the performance? ;)
 
nicoff said:
Let’s get our ducks in the right order.
The most important thing is the quality of the musicianship. That is, the artist, the orchestra, the performance.
How it was recorded and the mastering comes in second place.
If you prefer a top notch recording with lousy musicianship over a top notch performance with amazing artists, then you are just an audiophile.
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I agree. It is the artist and the performance that is key to me. Sure I enjoy a well recorded album but I have some truly poor recording of someone such a Timi Yuro who performance just makes you sit up and pay attention.
 
still-one said:
No, I think that's the Law of Jazz. :rolleyes:
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Bolt was referring to classical music. Jazz music from the 1950s and early 1960s on whole were recorded with a quality that eludes lots of modern recordings.
 
mep said:
Bolt was referring to classical music. Jazz music from the 1950s and early 1960s on whole were recorded with a quality that eludes lots of modern recordings.
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Therefore the quality of the recording has very little to do with the sales.
 
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