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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,305
    BlueFox wrote: »
    ...So, at some point I adopted my current name, based on my car at the time, a 1987 VW Fox, which was blue...

    Lol - my first car was a red ‘74 Audi Fox. It was sitting dead beside the house, and I was told it was mine if I could get it running. A new carb and a valve job, and I had a car. That was 1986.

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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,902
    BlueFox wrote: »
    24 to go if I did the math right. I should do this next weekend since I ordered 3 MQA encoded CDs and they should be here by Friday, and then I can post my opinion of MQA. :)

    Is your cdp or dac MQA certified ?
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    Tony, this is a great experiment. I have the Japanese SACDs for Exile On Main Street and Wheels Of Fire, so I will be able to compare the SACD to the ‘better’ CD. Then I can rip the MQA CDs, and play full MQA through the Lumin. At that point, I should be able to speak about MQA with experience.
    Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
    Sony XA-5400ES SACD; Pass XP-22 pre; X600.5 amps
    Magico S5 MKII Mcast Rose speakers; SPOD spikes

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    Shunyata Sigma XLR analog ICs, Sigma speaker cables
    Shunyata Sigma HC (2), Sigma Analog, Sigma Digital, Z Anaconda (3) power cables

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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,902
    But are those pieces MQA certified Bud ? An MQA CD is no different than an MQA file, you can't hear that format playing it on a regular CDP/SACD player.
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    Polk FX500 surrounds

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    I know that. That is why I will rip the files (as I do all CDs), and play it through the Lumin, which is MQA certified.

    Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
    Sony XA-5400ES SACD; Pass XP-22 pre; X600.5 amps
    Magico S5 MKII Mcast Rose speakers; SPOD spikes

    Shunyata Triton v3/Typhon QR on source, Denali 2000 (2) on amps
    Shunyata Sigma XLR analog ICs, Sigma speaker cables
    Shunyata Sigma HC (2), Sigma Analog, Sigma Digital, Z Anaconda (3) power cables

    Mapleshade Samson V.3 four shelf solid maple rack, Micropoint brass footers
    Three 20 amp circuits.
  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,902
    Can you rip an MQA CD ? I don't really know. Seems to me there would be some sort of copy protection.
    HT SYSTEM-
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    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

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    Sonos zp90
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    lsi 9's
  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,902
    Found that answer, guess your good to go Bud.


    My question is, can an MQA encoded CD be ripped and still retain all of the MQA information? If you can, would it be possible to use any software (I use JRiver Media Center and Roon) to send the files to an MQA enabled DAC and have it work? Herb didn't say what CD player he was using but I'm not aware of any special "MQA enabled" CD players so I'm guessing the MQA digital stream itself isn't encoded in some special way?



    Yes. Yes. MQA CD has MQA metadata and hi-res data folded and embedded in the noise. I've successfully tested a ripped track of a Japan demo MQA CD and played it on Lumin network player, with MQA decoding working as expected.



    If you use Roon to send MQA music to a USB MQA DAC without DSP / volume change / grouped playback, it should work. If you use Roon to send MQA music to a Roon Ready MQA player, at the time of this post only Lumin works (as far as I know). The other manufacturers which support both RAAT for Roon and MQA but not together are working on firmware upgrade to enable MQA over RAAT.



    If you do not have a MQA DAC, you can use Audirvana to decode the ripped MQA CD to MQA Core
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    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

    Kitchen

    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
    lsi 9's
  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    I received a notice that the CDs shipped yesterday, and there is a 3-6 day shipping window from Japan. I do hope they arrive by Friday so I can evaluate them this weekend.
    Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
    Sony XA-5400ES SACD; Pass XP-22 pre; X600.5 amps
    Magico S5 MKII Mcast Rose speakers; SPOD spikes

    Shunyata Triton v3/Typhon QR on source, Denali 2000 (2) on amps
    Shunyata Sigma XLR analog ICs, Sigma speaker cables
    Shunyata Sigma HC (2), Sigma Analog, Sigma Digital, Z Anaconda (3) power cables

    Mapleshade Samson V.3 four shelf solid maple rack, Micropoint brass footers
    Three 20 amp circuits.
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 32,926
    man, it used to be so easy...

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 24,477
    Are we there yet?