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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.
gbj_tester-
Just read the Wikipedia article on MQA. Sounds pretty suspect, overall.
Interesting that Meridian came up with it. I've owned many Meridian audio (hardware) products which always appeared to be very well engineered. I still have 3 power amps and one pre amp. The tuner and CD player I've sold on.
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I might have inadvertently been too flippant due to a relaxed attitude regarding alcohol.
Selling people on MQA because they need the blue light to light up on their DAC is cynical but people are stupid enough to fall for it and I don't have time to fix that problem.
There is a problem with file sharing and possibly streaming where the tracks can be altered or degraded massively without any way of telling if you don't have the original to compare. This could be a big problem in the future. That problem already existed in mastering in any case, switched channels, channel imbalance, brick wall compression etc.
ChasnotRobert
Airhead
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).