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 ...

High-resolution MQA-format music playback is coming to portable music players for the first time through sister brands Onkyo and Pioneer. Pioneer is adding MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) playback ...

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 ...

MQair is MQA’s new scalable real-time audio transmission protocol which aims to improve sound quality through wireless headphones or speakers. Nearly 8 years after the introduction of MQA, Bob Stuart ...

It’s been over a year since MQA Ltd. entered into administration, the British equivalent to filing for bankruptcy. Not long afterward, Tidal — the only major streaming service to use MQA technology — ...

When it comes to discussions of digital audio, you’ll quickly run into an alphabet soup of acronyms: MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, DSD, and so on. It’s practically endless. You’d think that with this ...

Made official this morning, Essential Phone owners have just picked up MQA audio support for the Tidal application. Before you ask me wtf MQA is, it’s Master Quality Authenticated, which means it’s as ...

Onkyo first showed its DP-X1 high-resolution digital audio player at CES earlier this year. From the specs alone, it looked like a quality piece of gear, but it had one special trick up its sleeve: ...

Tokyo / London, 16 March 2017: A recording by Astor Piazzolla “the single most important figure in the history of tango” will be the first MQA recording to be released on compact disc in Japan. The ...

TIDAL HiFi members can now enjoy millions of new MQA tracks from Warner Music Group. Today, TIDAL announced millions of MQA tracks from Warner Music Group have been added to the TIDAL Masters catalog ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As high-resolution streaming audio (higher than CD quality) slowly becomes more prevalent on subscriptions like Tidal Hi-Fi Plus and Amazon ...