People can think what they want of MQA sound. The most objectionable part was the end to end equipment requirement. This grand patent licensing scheme and you know the record companies wanted that for DRM. Those end to end schemes always leave folks with issues trying to play media they paid for…My Project S2 glitches out with MQA tracks and it’s a common issue.
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.