Franz..you can turn MQA on or off on the fly ... its not the masters , its whatever MQA does ....
I have compared my local rips to the same master ..ie my 1644 to their mqa encoded 24/48 and there is a difference , but its not a remastering difference.. it's quite difficult to verbalise the difference as it is such a paradigm shift ..
My system is amazing for imaging , scale and soundstage .. this just takes it to a new level in terms of suspension of belief.. add to that sharper transients , a more open sound , better bass texture and timing
There is even more to be had , in my case , if I could use a MQA dac rather than just decode in software , maybe Devialet will cater for MQA at some time
On many recordings MQA also seems to clean up something relating to vocals. It removes some fuzz that you were never aware was there until it is gone.
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