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Tidal class-action

MQA declared bankruptcy.  I smell the fear of a class action lawsuit against Tidal.  We could do that.  Tidal has 8 million subscribers, we don't know how many or how long they all were paying double by subscribing to the 'nobody can prove Tidal has any tracks higher than 44.1khz' plan.  They probably have lots of people on phones who haven't even heard of MQA who trust them and wanted the one that sounds better.  They're right not to have to listen to any talk about MQA if they want the plan that sounds better.

MQA means you can't prove the file is an original copy or not. That Beethoven track you like it says is 192 could actually be Dua Lipa at 11khz.

The bankruptcy move was probably to protect themselves from Tidal, who is the receiver of people's funds.

 

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I'm no MQA fan:  (1) end-to-end systems with a clear opportunity to turn it into DRM in the future; (2) end-to-end system that doesn't work - just check dropouts from MQA handshakes with various DACs...open standards that don't require some handshake at every hop just work better, (3) it's not lossless and for a long time they argued it was; (4) only a few recordings received white glove treatment, the rest was batch processed and (5) this all means their marketing was obnoxiously over-hyping.

And yet, what the OP is saying is completely incoherent.  There are so many good ways to burn MQA and yet the OP seems to have missed shooting the side of the barn from 10 feet away. 

But the OP did make a splash.  I had fun reading and responding for 10 minutes.

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