What happen to MQA on Tidal?

It's so good that they even make some 44.1 streams MQA 44.1 streams, so that it has to go through an extra chip that they claim makes it sound just like the original 44.1 track did.

Next, they'll say that men are cheaper than women, and you should try them out, too, so that they can save money, while charging you double anyhow.

You're one of the fools who fell for the scam if you bought MQA gear.  At best, compression will make it to identical to streaming the original higher res track.  It never makes it to that.  Switching to Qobuz, higher res tracks immediately gave me what Tidal hasn't given me yet.  However, I kept Tidal's 44.1 plan for it's 8 custom and unique personalized playlists.  That's exactly what I want from a streaming service.  Now that Tidal says they're ditching My Queer Ambition and returning all tracks to the original higher res versions, I switched back to the 2x cost higher res plan, but so far there has only been MQA.  Qobuz's single weekly personal playlist is full of crap I don't even listen to, and their browsing for more is worse than anybody's.  However, their default player not only sounds the least bad of all the streamers, but it actually makes it to default players might not always have to be so bad.  I want the default streamer's players outside of Audirvana to be good for while I play games, and for their browsing, which you can't expect Audirvana to keep up with for everybody.  So, so far, Qobuz is winning the SQ battle, but I'm going with Tidal for it's 8 customized playlists no matter what.  Maybe I'll get Qobuz again for a few more months, for the times I want to hear stuff I can search for in higher res, until Tidal stops ripping people off with MQA's proposed bandwidth saving scam.

Sorry, just remember what it stands for, apologies for the way they must be looking at everyone else after that. All you can really do is warn people that they’re dead for crap like that. That’s probably why they approached Jay-Z about it in the first place. Because you wouldn’t believe how dead you should be if you not only expect someone with a 10k DAC they love to replace it with the next year’s same model except with an extra chip in it, to be able to play files that they say sound the same as higher res, but don’t require more than 44.1khz bandwidth, even though Tidal still charges you double the price for the higher tier after all. Nobody else is charging more for higher res yet. Qobuz is $14 instead of $10 here, but they also have the best sounding default player. Of course, nobody else messes with what they say they’re actually selling you.

The guy with the Q ideas probably thought that Jay-z was the right guy to approach with the idea, because since he was a drug dealer before being a rapper, if he ever found out about it, he’d just have to go along with it because of that.

Compression is dead for it.  If streaming players ever start downloading in advance, decompressing the file onto a local hard drive, then playing that, people will start falling asleep while listening, compared to FLAC etc.  Adding an extra chip is really bad news for an audio signal.  Ha, they even said the first 'unfold' already happened on the cpu, which would be a much noisier chip than a dedicated one, which followed, already.