MQS SD - The Newest Physical Retail Music Format

I collect different pre-recorded music formats as well as the machines that play them now the most recent format that came out that had Mass Market success will have been the compact disc

since the CD there have been other formats that have been introduced but they've generally been met with public apathy we've had things like the digital audio tap

The Minis digital compact cassette sacd DVD audio and Blu-ray audio now while it was clear from the off that Blu-ray audio was never going to be a

mass Market success I am fond of the format more often than not the titles that were released on it would have been multiple disc compilations on other formats but could all fit on One Blu-Ray

disc of course you could play it on any Blu-ray player the audio was high res and this one that I got this Rolland Stones compilation has 50 tracks on it and actually cost less at the time I

bought it than the CD compilation and also comes with a download code for 320 kilobits per second MP3 files and of course you get a larger booklet in this

and you would get inside the CD but despite all that I'm sure there are plenty of people watching this who' have never heard of Blu-ray audio and unfortunately I think by now it's largely fizzled out as a format but for

a while that was the last pre-recorded audio format that have been released but now there's a new one let me show it to you and here it is and you'd be forgiven

for thinking that this is a CD Well the box is the same size and shape as a CD case of course this is the Beatles one compilation it's got the same track listing on here you get if you were to

buy this on a CD this format is known as mqs well at least it's kind of known as out it's a little bit complicated there's only been perhaps half a dozen titles released on it so far amongst

those titles were a Pavarotti compilation an album by Jason morz and another one by bonjovi but this is the only one I was interested in and as you can see this is imported it comes from

South Korea and the format we're talking about is in the end here and if I get that out you can see straight away it is a Micro SD card I was happy to see that they've put the album on the actual

micro SD card itself and that's not a sticker that's actually printed on the surface you get a booklet inside the box as well which i' imagine you also get if you were to buy this on CD although I don't own this compilation on CD it's

also stuck in the back of there you can't remove that but anyway who is or what is mqs well it comes from a company called Asel and Kern they're a South

Korean manufacturer of high-end personal audio players that play highres files and their description of mqs is as follows mqs or mastering quality s

refers to a high definition 24-bit 48 to 192 khz sound generators with the mqs technique which processes the original sound file during the mastering stage the final stage of sound making mqs

delivers a full bodied sound close to the original Sound Source provided with more than 6.5 times amount of data that CD sound has mqs lets you experience an

incomparable and Ultimate Sound Performance or to sum up it's snake oil anyway I'll put it inside the computer here we'll put the micro SD card in this SD card reader and pop into the computer

we'll just have a look at the files that are OD here to see exactly what you get well it's just a normal micro s dcard formatted as fat 32 the audio files on

this album take up 897 megabytes of storage and they're all Flack files if we inspect one of those files we can see that for this one they've been recorded

at 44.1 khz at 24 bits now 44.1 is exactly the same as a compact disc but a compact disc is 44.1 and 16 bits this one is 24 bits which means it's a little

bit better quality and those specs match the Beatles USB stick that came out a few years ago that had all their albums on it also at 44.1 khz and 24 bits I think that's the highest quality that

the Beatles albums have ever been released in and of course with these being standard flak files it means you can play them back on any piece of Hardware or software that supports that format which answers a question I had in

my own mind I didn't know whether mqs was actually a format or just specific to aselin Kern but no it's flak files but at 24 bits now I'm sure there are some people out there that are

experiencing Deja Vu at the moment and don't worry you're not going mad somebody has tried this idea before SanDisk introduced the slot music format

number of years ago where they released pre-recorded albums on 1 gigabyte micro SD cards those micro SD cards contain

320 kilobits per second MP3 files and of course you could put those micro SD cards in compatible MP3 players or mobile phones the micro SD cards themselves came in these nice little

plastic boxes that had album art on them although the micro SD card itself didn't have any art on there and you also got a little USB SD card reader I suppose then that raises a question of why try and

reintroduce the idea of selling pre-recorded music on a delivery format that previously failed as a way to sell pre-recorded music well I suppose things are a little bit different now in that

we're dealing with highres or HD audio files but it's probably quite a bit easier just to go on a website like HD track and download the files from there although a quick check reveals they

don't currently have the Beatles albums available to download of course Asel and Kern who are behind this format do sell the personal audio players that have Micro SD card slots on them so I suppose

they're thinking customers could just pick these up and Slot them in and they don't have to mess around with a computer and after all who's it really harming this is only a very Niche thing that's only available in South Korea I

don't think there's any problem with people buying their music on micro SD cards if that's what they want want to do and I think this Beatles compilation is probably going to end up being pretty collectible in years to come so there

you have it as far as I'm aware the mqs micro SD card is the last pre-recorded music format that's been introduced unless of course you know different and if you do please put some information in

the comments anyway that's it for the moment as always thanks for watching

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