In the innovative history of recorded sound, a strange and rather disappointing trend emerged in the era of digital audio: despite the convenience, the quality of the sound got worse. To longtime ...

So much for MQA on Tidal, with the music streaming service announcing that it will soon wipe any remaining MQA-encoded tracks from its catalog of tunes. Also going out with the bathwater are tracks ...

When MQA director of licensing Andy Dowell spoke at the Music Week Tech Summit earlier this year, he did so as a key player at one of the most innovative music companies around. Using MQA’s unique ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MQA audio: What is it? How can you get it?. The first service to offer hi-res streaming was Qobuz, followed soon after by Tidal ...

The average Joe may be happy to listen to music at the low-resolution quality offered by Spotify and Apple Music, but uncompromising audiophiles tend to prefer the lossless streams provided by Tidal.

Canadian audio group Lenbrook has announced today that it has acquired the assets of MQA, the British-based technology company that developed the MQA high-resolution audio encoding technique used by ...

MQA has filed for the appointment of administrators in the United Kingdom. Will they have to sell off SCL6 to survive? Earlier this week MQA filed paperwork with the UK courts for the Appointment of ...

Things appeared to be looking up for MQA. The company behind one of the audio world’s most controversial technologies recently launched a new (and largely unrelated) piece of tech called the SCL6 ...

MQA, the embattled U.K. audio technology company founded by Bob Stuart, has a new owner in Canada-based Lenbrook, the parent company of Bluesound, NAD, and PSB Speakers. Financial details haven’t been ...

Convenience versus quality. It’s a conundrum music lovers wrestle with all the time: would you rather download giant FLAC files that sound identical to the original studio master but need to be ...

To start with, please do not talk about audiophile snake-oil, etc. This is only about technical aspects of playing back MQA files. Long story short, ended up with an NAD integrated amp for powering ...