Im astonished they havent. The mechanisms for lossless or high-res have been in place for ages now with ALAC and the Mastered For iTunes initiative. I dont understand the decision not to at all. It makes Apples offering look obviously inferior quality to the competition, which is the opposite one would expect from a company that tries to position itself at the top of the market.
But Apple has never been about absolute quality, but about user experience.
BSD with style.
Have a listen to the new Noel Gallagher album in Tidal Masters esp the single, shocking sq.
Some technical stuff to do with MQA timing in this month’s Stereophile plus an interesting opening editorial from John Atkinson who seems a little bemused by the anger towards it in some online quarters. I’ve not read the tech stuff yet, but a quick skim gives the impression it does do something and this is backed up with impulse plots etc. They’ll be analysing the compression next month.
Is that on the web now, or am I correct in assuming they don't publish such material until a later date? I gave up subscribing to Stereophile. I did enjoy reading it, but a mix of issues that got 'lost in the post' and delays in sorting out renewals made me give up persisting.
You can get a digital subscription through www.zinio.com for almost nothing a year. (€4.37 for 12 issues in Europe)
Apparently, as long as the MQA decoder is enabled, the impulse response is basically the same—even for non-MQA data.