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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

MQA is an audio format that claims to use a unique “origami” algorithm, promising better quality and more musicality than other formats. At times, it’s been claimed to be a lossless format in so many ...

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 ...

The new Cambridge Audio DACMagic 200M can natively decode MQA files as well as virtually any other type of digital file. It includes Bluetooth and has plenty of inputs and outputs. One of my favorite ...

If you are an iPhone or iPad owner with a Tidal subscription, the sound of your favorite albums may be about to get that much sweeter. Tidal, the artist-owned streaming service that made a name for ...

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 ...

Feature packed $499 DAC and Headphone Amplifier adds native MQA support and processes hi-res audio up to 32-bit/768kHz (PCM) and DSD512. British audio specialists Cambridge Audio, today announced ...

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