MQA-CD plays back on all CD players. When a conventional CD player is connected to an MQA-enabled device, the CD will reveal the original master quality.
MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) is an award-winning British technology that reveals every detail of the original master recording.
Regular CD Player
As a result of the MQA encoding process, MQA-CDs benefit from increased timing precision and de- blurring when played on any device. (This playback mode is called “Legacy” and is one of the key features of MQA, where all listeners will hear audio – irrespective of the playback decoder functionality).
MQA-Enabled CD Player
These CD players can recognise an MQA-CD. The built-in MQA decoder will automatically restore the high-resolution signal heard in the studio and confirm it, using the authentication signatures.
MQA-enabled CD players include Oppo UDP-205, Esoteric Grandioso K1x, Triode TRV-CD65E and Meridian 808v6 with more being released to market each quarter.
MQA-CD ripping
Consumers may want to rip MQA-CDs for playback on a range of devices. As described in section 7.2.3, we recommend using the MQA Tag Restorer application to restore the metadata tags required by some MQA-enabled devices.
The application can be downloaded free here - www.mqa.co.uk/tag435sdf43te
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EL CAPITAN - A song about Yosemite Valley and the Sierras, where the protagonist senses deeper metaphysical vibrations amid memories of past visits with loved ones. Tim Walker plays the great steel guitar lines. The rhythm section of Brian Filosa and George Sluppick drive the song with a velvet groove. I think it was at this session that George nicknamed Brian “Feely”. Drums tracked at the original, modest but funky, Palomino Sound Studio location.
lyrics
EL CAPITAN
All along the Muir trail and over Nevada Falls
Underneath Hetch-Hetchy, when they flooded her walls
I sense a presence there in the pines and the stones
A heartbeat much deeper than, of mere flesh and bone
I hear you calling me, a place so subtle I can’t see
Send word and I will be there
Amongst the palace that was not made by man
El Capitan
I’d give anything, everything I own
Cast it all into the sea, in the rocks and the foam
And I’d run any race, mile after mile
Once again to see your face, feel the warmth of your smile
I hear you calling me, a place so subtle I can’t see
Send word and I will be there
Amongst the palace that was not made by man
El Capitan
I hear you calling me, a place so subtle I can’t see
Send word and I will be there
Amongst the palace that was not made by man
El Capitan
credits
from Meadow Rock,
released June 18, 2021
6- EL CAPITAN - (by Joe Bourdet) Mountain Sounds (ASCAP)
George Sluppick - Drums
Brian Filosa - Bass
Mimi Michel - Vocal
Tim Walker - Pedal Steel Guitar
Jason Soda - Acoustic Guitar, Solo
Joe - Guitars, Moog Rogue, Vocal
Recorded at Mountain Sounds Recorders, and Palomino Sound, Los Angeles, CA.
Engineered by Joe Bourdet and Jason Soda. LOST ALONG THE WAY engineered by Dave Lindsay at Country Club Studios, NYC, drums and other overdubs at Mountain Sounds Recorders.
Copyright (c) 2021
Digital Mastering - Dave Collins.
Vinyl Mastering - Kevin Gray
Photography - Sara Ross-Samko
Layout and design - David Burden, Justin Hawkins
Title graphics - Michael Dozal
If Wooden Shjips traded their sails for a prairie schooner, this is what you might hear them playing around the campfire at night on the Great Plains: homespun country-rock with a hint of psychedelia. Wonderful stuff, from start to finish. neu-mann
Entire album is excellent. As is the rest of the catalog. Go back to 1970...take the Dead and Floyd and roll them up. Yet completely different.
Just plain old GOOD MUSIC. Ed Fransko
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