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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.
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Yes, we will have to.
My business is buying and selling authentic products. I can decide whether it sounds good once I know I have a good copy of the original. If it's remastered or affected by DRM then I at least want to know.
Sending musicians cash won't help them produce albums. Unless it's a lot of cash.
Airhead
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.