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Your ears are not everything when the question is the quality of reference that the copy of music you are listening to is, especially in terms of authenticity.
Then there's the industry that want's to continue to get paid for it's legal owned rights.
Like I said, I'm not an advocate of it. It's another sort of DRM because the industry is worried once the DSD masters are available and widely shared freely they will be unable to keep selling it.
However I'm also interested in authenticity and I pay for the music I listen to because I respect musicians as artists and feel they deserve to be paid for the music they are making.
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Your ears are not everything
I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree. No amount of certification will convince me that shit is gold, but if you think shit is tasty as long as it's certified traceable 100% authentic, that's your business.
I respect musicians as artists and feel they deserve to be paid for the music they are making.
Send them cash. I've never seen any industry scheme, MQA included, which wasn't mostly about making sure the industry got paid, usually at the expense of the artists.
gbj_tester
Your ears are everything. If you don't like how music sounds, stop listening to it.
They started by saying it was lossless, then backtracked when people proved it wasn't.
This is more snake oil, once you get beyond the most basic toy-level DAC, the errors in conversion are the least part of your problem. If you persist with the delusion that you can hear what the artist heard when they signed off the release, you have to compensate far more for the mechanical part of the reproduction, i.e. room and speakers.