The best part about MQA bankruptcy..


Is going to be that we will see many fewer discussions on Audiogon about it! 🤣

Now we can all focus on hating on ASR and professional reviewers.

 

https://www.whathifi.com/news/mqa-is-going-into-administration

erik_squires

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.

Chapter 11 or 13 are not good, and some people will lose their livelihood. Not an adapter of MQA but I think there is a market and options are good. 

I feel for the folks that lose their job and lost their investments.  Some here are very narrow minded and self-centered.

Bankruptcy is never good. Maybe PE will bail them out. 

It probably took a lot of work for the person who thought of the idea to get people to listen to the same stream, but with an unfolding chip they bought new gear for, to make gear readouts say 96 and who knows how high up they'll support with it.