MQA Declares Bankruptcy

I don’t think all of this is over for mqa in terms of the format. 

Interesting, just saw an email from Sound and Vision that TIDAL is now offering hi-rez FLAC subscription plan subscriptions.

Someone here once described MQA as a stopgap solution to a temporary problem that had served its purpose and needed to die. What has changed besides the company's finances? To my ears it was always simply unlistenable.

IMO MQA always sounded inferior.  I did a A/B in my listening room Qobuz vs Tidal and FLAC via Qobuz almost always sounded better.  This was playing on a good and very revealing system not a boom box.  

The best thing that could happen for music consumers that care about quality is for MQA to sunset.  Then development and investments can be made to further the other formats or new alternatives.  If MQA goes away I won't miss it.

@dinov 

Aren’t all the HiRez services flac down loads to save bandwidth??