“MQA is a philosophy”..John Stuart

MQA and Bob Stuart, yes.
John Stuart? No. 

ptss...

what are you trying to accomplish from this thread? Your last thread on MQA pretty much sums it how you and other Naysayer thinks about MQA.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/mqa-foolish-new-algorithm-vote

I suggest you try listening to MQA tracks and post your thoughts. 

" My thoughts, I suggest you try and spend some time listening to MQA tracks than wasting your time with these futile posters. "-  lalitk

I don't think anyone here cares about YOUR "suggestion" with regard to whether or not someone has a right to discuss  (correction) Bob's "philosophy". In fact, from a technical standpoint, Stuart's "invention" is more of a philosophy than an actual technical development that improves sound quality. If you actually care enough to enlighten yourself and closely examine the impulse response graphs posted in Stereophile, you'd see that MQA adds latency (distortion) to the signal and also adds dither (background noise) that masks legitimate ripple in the process of encoding.decoding. It is actually inferior to the original format. This also serves as positive proof that most "audiofaithful" couldn't tell the difference between a 192khz/24 bit replica vs. a 14 bit MQA rendition.  Again, no double blind testing has been done to verify any of Stuart's claims. He's just another high priest of audiophooldom preaching to the gullible and vulnerable.

It’s not really about MQA, or Bob Stuart.

It’s about having the entire industry locked into a standard that has a near 100% chance of being found to be at fault, found to be detrimental, found to be limited..to have that ’standard’ run into/as everything... and have that faulty low quality be all we can get, for very high costs.

For at least a decade.

A decade of music listening ruined. Forever. Gone. Wiped out.

About 1/4 of your music listening life, cut out from underneath you. If not half your listening life cut out from you, if MQA ends up having longer legs in the market.

wake up and fight it, or lose it.

So, instead of high fidelity, all you'll get is a forced pay ....for a 'good enough' format.

Wasn't CD bad enough? Did people not learn anything?

While I agree with your sentiment overall, I have more faith in the general public understanding what's really going on ( record company attempts to control the market and boost profit by intentionally cheapening the product to the masses and offering original quality we've been used to at a premium price to those willing to pay) and stopping MQA before it can do too much damage. Perhaps I'm being too optimistic thinking that the lion's share of music buying people are not gullible fools who believe they have to spend many thousands to get good accurate reproduction of recorded. music.