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What happen to MQA on Tidal?

After listening to Tidal only on my phone the last few weeks, I went to stream on my home system but soon realized all my MQA tracks were no longer showing up and the MQA parameters were absent in my streaming settings.  I see Tidal is in "administration" (Chapter 11???).   One of the main reasons I subscribed to Tidal was MQA and purchased a DAC that could decode the format.   I think I should have at least been informed by Tidal if it was cancelling MQA.  Any thoughts? 

I know a lot of people hate (hated) MQA, but like any format I have listened to (Vinyl, CD, SACD, FLAC, MQA, etc.) , some things sound great and others on a plain old red book CD sounds better. 

bubbagump
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ditusa
1,883 posts
 

@tvrgeek Wrote:

MQA was a flop. For better or worse. I expect to see Atmos follow suit. 

+200

wolf_garcia
6,695 posts
 

Maybe somebody cares but even with a revealing high end system all I could do is assume it sounded better which It might not have. Not loosing any sleep over it.

bubbagump OP
8 posts
 

Trying to attach a jpeg of my settings, all my MQA options are gone, just setting of "Low", "High", and "Max".  Time to contact Tidal support.

soix
9,456 posts
 

Simplify your life and do a trial of Qobuz, and no MQA or other Tidal BS to deal with.  I switched years ago — as have many here — and have never looked back. 

surfmuz
399 posts
 

First check your interconnects, cause some connection types don’t support MQA streaming. Then go through your streamer control App, check all corresponding decoding settings and tune them MQA enabled. 

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