Ultimate HQCD (UHQCD) - new CD format, King Crimson on UHQCD and more

Another high-res, super high quality material format is just what the world needs. And we really haven't bought enough reissues of Steely Dan's Aja yet.

 

Well, when we stop buying 'em, they'll..................let it all go out of print and try to sell us on streaming services.

 

and that's why the industry is dying ...

 

Totally never going to happen.

 

Consumerism baby!
I basically stopped at CD.

 

I'll wait for the SMQA versions on MUHQUHD.

Even on this forum there are suckers who buy into this hogwash.

 

Well i discovered them last year, so I'm good

 

This is pure garbage.

 

What nonsense. Just wow.

 

Neil Young’s Archives Vol. 1 being a fine example.

 

Poppycock. All this new-fangled nonsense will never replace ol' Betsy.

 

My understanding is that in addition to resolution (how many bytes of a music file can be stored and read) there were aspects of layers in that when music is recorded, transferred ans stored again......something is lost. I got to hear an album right off the master tapes (Wire Train's Between Two Worlds) in the studio and was gobsmacked when hearing the LP at how much was lost. Maybe this new technology helps remove some of that buffer between what was recorded and what is ultimately transferred to your speakers/headphones? I'm perfectly willing to accept that I'm way off but I remember watching something about why sound quality/properties are lost between the sound being played at home and what was recorded and the physical media properties played a large part in that so I've always wondered if the industry was ever working to improve on this, maybe this is part of the effort?

 

Mechanical amplification is so clearly superior to these new-fangled electronics and “tubes”, which only poorly mimic sound waves with the swish swoosh of electrons. No wonder something is lost in the translation.

 

They’re not doing that one...the article says they’re doing Aya.

 

No, MQA does not remove any of that buffer. In fact, MQA is lossy and not true hi-res. It’s a scam.

 

The Japanese love to re-re-release their Universal titles in multiple formats!

 

Except that in this case MQA is lossy.

 

No, you don't get it. With this superior technology, you'll find that it's always really been "Aya". But they adjusted the title to "Aja" back then because they knew it wouldn't be reproduced accurately.

 

I got a chuckle over the apparent fact that "aya" apparently means, "teenager", which does cast a different light on the title track! I never new "Aja" was a precursor to "Hey Nineteen"!

 

How much definition does one really need fer crissakes!

 

Has anyone here actually heard a CD that is MQA encoded ? I've read an awful lot of negative remarks (here and elsewhere), based on what appears to be opinion from many with no doubt more knowledge of digital sound reproduction than myself, but not a single review from anyone who has actually heard MQA and made any studied, critical comparison to redbook standard 2-channel signed 16-bit linear PCM sampled at 44,100 Hz.

I am more interested to learn about the time-axis principle involved with MQA than with the touted 'high-resolution' aspect that seems to get all of the attention during most of these discussions.

 

What are the titles? I’m curious.

 

I’m waiting for the platinum editions

 

"The title and "rogue of The Rolling Stones / Main Street" and "Eric Clapton / 461 Ocean Boulevard".

Looks like they are making CD's of places you can drive your vehicle.