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MQA is a way of guaranteeing that streaming services don't just use needledrops of the their own vinyl collection instead of obtaining masters and paying artists properly. The reason Tidal are big on this is artists own the company *(like household name artists).
Airhead-
Ah, I see. Thank you.
I'll reserve judgement on whether the apparent compression / artefacts actually matter irl.
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MQA is a way of guaranteeing that streaming services don't just use needledrops of the their own vinyl collection instead of obtaining masters and paying artists
Well, that's one way of looking at it. Critics of the MQA business model (rather than technology) have a substantially different take.
ChasnotRobert
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Thanks, that's an interesting article.
I haven't been following the MQA debate, although I do use Tidal + Roon. Some parts of the article where too technical for me but what is the main deal here, Tidal use MQA to save on bandwidth or something else?