Jim Audiomisc
pfm Member
A well written report Jim. Also very damning. MQA does not deblur... it actually adds blur!!
Quote below is from Jim's article linked above.
- The MQA system is meant to avoid ‘blurring’ (their term) the time-domain details of the waveforms. Yet the above looks like the result of going though Tidal’s processing has lead to both of the output versions that result being ‘blurred’ with an asymmetric time window of up to 1 or 2 milliseconds.
- The MQA and non-MQA versions look like being quite close to identical
One point to clarify: Note that at the above point I was talking about the obvious extent of the impulse 'tail'. The actual dispersion of the overall frequency response is more like 0.3 ms.