The best part about MQA bankruptcy..

That’s a shame, not that I’m a MQA fan but less options for us, and less competition if Tidal fails. Also, there really needs to be a solution to large hi rez digital files and streaming. Streaming is the future and that includes Mobile streaming like ROON ARC, which is amazing…I’d hate to put bandwidth before quality and stay stuck in the mp3 days…that’s awful. We’ve evolved so much with Quobuz, Tidal and ROON. Sorry to go on about this….

In my opinion nothing beats a great sacd and a great sacd player

i have both Qobuz, tidal  and vinyl Oh its

crazy how we fall for hype everyone ran towards the tidal wave. And 

got smoked. 

Bankruptcy applies to individuals. Administration is an option in the UK for insolvent companies. MQA's has been heavily loss making for the past couple of years.  Administration involves handing over control of the company to an administrator who is effectively given control over the company and its future.

I'm still thinking they'll keep MQA going in some capacity, but I wouldn't want Tidal to go down with it as collateral damage. I'm not a MQA fan/hater, but I do like Tidal.

I can confirm that since Golden Sounds' expose' of MQA, about a year ago, things have got measurable better. Some recordings in MQA are fabulous.

However it's greed as usual that has been their "unfolding", forcing the purchase of a specially equipped DAC for the full privilege is ridiculous.

All they needed to do was sell a $20 upgrade software package or add another buck to Tidal subscriptions.

This'll probably sink Tidal because now there's no advantage to using it bar geographical restrictions.

Since many hardware manufacturers and chip companies have heavily invested in MQA I expect MQA to be sold for a buck to prevent lawsuits.

The article that I read (HiFi Pig) quoted the owners and administrators that MQA had gone into administration as part of a process to facilitate its sale and continuation, including with new systems and technology.

Sadly I do not think we have seen the last of MQA as yet.

Actually, why are we talking like mqa is the past?  It's currently running more than ever on Tidal.

Unlistenable. The only surprising thing is that it lasted so long. 

If Netflix streams it’s 4k video at 15gbhr, that’s a bitrate of roughly 4166kbs. I haven’t seen anything released yet at 384kbs. but if you could be getting 192 for your track, that’ss roughly 21 times as much. That Netflix plan is 14.99 here, Tidal’s plan with the mqa that makes it stream only at 44.1, is 19.99.

Tidal was charging double and using folding down then back up instead of downsampling then upsampling, to save bandwidth costs.  MQA was folding everything above 16.44 down to 16.44 rate, to be folded up to 96 by cpu, after that you would have to replace your 10k dac with the same model with a cheap chip first to go higher.  Only on Tidal.

Video game distributors will let you download free games at full speed for the rest of your life, if you want. They don’t see a need to conserve bandwidth costs.

This legal proceeding may render MQA moot…while we are at the pun fest. 

OP,

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@onhwy61 I see what you did there! 🤣

I don’t know about that, erik. We’ve got two new MQA threads today.

@erik_squires  that is funny!  …and I agree!

It should be interesting to see how the bankruptcy unfolds.