The best part about MQA bankruptcy..

At first, for me, the best part of MQA was the A part: Authenticated. It meant that the streaming service did not alter the data from what had been originally released.

The bit compression, etc. seemed useless in the face of modern internet and phone speeds.

What I didn't appreciate so much then until I read the Benchmark white paper on it was how much you lose.

I wonder about the Absolute Sound’s absolute schilling for MQA some years ago. It seemed religious…or financial.

It also caused me to realize that this magazine had strayed a long ways from that I subscribed to back in 1974!

In any event, I almost never listen to Tidal anymore as the Quboz offerings have expanded so much.

I told you all MQA sucked.

erik_squires:

Thank you for admitting that 'Authenticated' was the part that sounded good, since they were talking about Master Quality.

After that, using this technique, it actually turns out that mqa actually keeps the users from being able to authenticate that Tidal actually even has the original higher res versions on their drives.

anotherbob:

I'll always be with you that mqa sucks, but it ain't past tense, the buggers are still streaming it full tilt at Tidal.

You're probably smart, and at qobuz.  We have to wait till next month in my country.  I could be at amazon, but Tidal's player sounds less bad, and is more important than higher res.  Fortunately, it (and qobuz) play in Audirvana, the player I find sounds the best.