Reply To: B&O and Hi-Res Music Streaming

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In my opinion, MQA is a dead man walking. It attempted to solve a problem that no longer exists (insufficient bandwidth to stream lossless audio). Besides this, they have consistently failed to deliver proof to support their sound quality claims, all while doing what they can to hinder independent efforts to measure what the format actually does to the sound (I recommend watching GoldenSound’s videos on the topic to get an idea). The gist seems to be that MQA is far from being a lossless format that preserves the original master.

There’s also the fact that Tidal is now adding support for actual high-resolution lossless files, and the MQA company has gone into administration.