Is MQA in your Future?

And of course, there are always those that throw water at a potentially interesting technology, because of the statements around 'upsampling of existing content'. This 'opinion piece' was penned back in 2012, when JVC/Victor decided to begin reprocessing their existing catalog.

It's JVC's K2 HD mastering that's at the core of the new announcement: it's been used to upsample a range of 'selected' recordings from the 16-bit/44.1kHz of CD to 24-bit/96kHz, 24-bit/192kHz or 1-bit/2.8MHz DSD – as used for SACD – and an initial 18 titles will be available in Japan via the e-Onkyo store (above) from December 12th.
And they say that like it's a good thing...

And why wouldn't a remastered reissue at a high resolution be a good thing? Perhaps instead, people should be focused on the application of the technology to improve not only a current catalog, but 'future releases' after that. But that's just my opinion.

 
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