No MQA recordings are the original masters. They have special MQA DSP applied. That's just a fact. The name and the reality have nothing to do with one another.
Neal Young and Tidal
I read where Neal Young claimed the MQA files of his music on Tidal were not his Master recordings. Isn’t that what MQA stands for: Master Quality Authenticated. If that’s what happened, then is MQA not really a guarantee that you are getting THE Master recording? Maybe I didn’t get the story right. Because if that’s true I would think the story would be covered in every audio publication with MQA being named the biggest hoax in years. But that isn’t happening. What’s the real story?