This USB DAC is super versatile and relatively inexpensive, but its biggest attraction is its ability to decode MQA tracks. Meridian’s Explorer2 portable digital-to-audio converter can play virtually ...

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 ...

OPPO Digital just released a new firmware update for their UDP-205 universal disc player, which adds support for MQA encoded digital music files. This firmware update is OPPO’s first step in ...

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 ...

Another music-download service and more audio suppliers have embraced the high-resolution MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) format. 2L’s download store offers more than 120 MQA albums. Meantime, ...

Meridian Audio, Ltd., the folks that brought us Meridian Lossless Packing, aka Packed PCM, are back with their new Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) that promises smaller HD audio files with playback ...

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.

The recent announcement that MQA Ltd. has entered into administration has been one of the most significant news stories of the year so far within the world of audio tech. As a result of the company’s ...

For some, the joys and conveniences of the streaming music revolution have come at too high a price. Specifically: Audio quality. Bandwidth has been the chief culprit here, with lossless, 24-bit 96kHz ...

TIDAL is introducing hi-res FLAC to the platform but does that really mean the end of MQA? We take a deeper look into a story that has customers confused. In my coverage last week of MQA’s Chapter 11 ...