The best part about MQA bankruptcy..

I told you all MQA sucked.

erik_squires:

Thank you for admitting that 'Authenticated' was the part that sounded good, since they were talking about Master Quality.

After that, using this technique, it actually turns out that mqa actually keeps the users from being able to authenticate that Tidal actually even has the original higher res versions on their drives.

anotherbob:

I'll always be with you that mqa sucks, but it ain't past tense, the buggers are still streaming it full tilt at Tidal.

You're probably smart, and at qobuz.  We have to wait till next month in my country.  I could be at amazon, but Tidal's player sounds less bad, and is more important than higher res.  Fortunately, it (and qobuz) play in Audirvana, the player I find sounds the best.

When these types of services go down, we all lose. Less options for everyone. Whether you like MQA or not, it's bad for hi-fi listeners. 

We have seen an age with ipods, downloaded music, albums, CD, music streaming and much more. Whatever it is, you don't like... just bypass that media/service. 

mqa does not introduce the type of option I would like to see introduced.  Folding and hiding data, so that it gets unfolded back, with a chip you have to buy in a new dac?  So that an audio streamer saves bandwidth money, and still charges double anyways?  Netflix streams 21 times more data than 192khz audio files, for less money than Tidal, who only streams at 44.1 either way.