The best part about MQA bankruptcy..

I can confirm that since Golden Sounds' expose' of MQA, about a year ago, things have got measurable better. Some recordings in MQA are fabulous.

However it's greed as usual that has been their "unfolding", forcing the purchase of a specially equipped DAC for the full privilege is ridiculous.

All they needed to do was sell a $20 upgrade software package or add another buck to Tidal subscriptions.

This'll probably sink Tidal because now there's no advantage to using it bar geographical restrictions.

Since many hardware manufacturers and chip companies have heavily invested in MQA I expect MQA to be sold for a buck to prevent lawsuits.

I'm still thinking they'll keep MQA going in some capacity, but I wouldn't want Tidal to go down with it as collateral damage. I'm not a MQA fan/hater, but I do like Tidal.

Bankruptcy applies to individuals. Administration is an option in the UK for insolvent companies. MQA's has been heavily loss making for the past couple of years.  Administration involves handing over control of the company to an administrator who is effectively given control over the company and its future.

In my opinion nothing beats a great sacd and a great sacd player

i have both Qobuz, tidal  and vinyl Oh its

crazy how we fall for hype everyone ran towards the tidal wave. And 

got smoked. 

That’s a shame, not that I’m a MQA fan but less options for us, and less competition if Tidal fails. Also, there really needs to be a solution to large hi rez digital files and streaming. Streaming is the future and that includes Mobile streaming like ROON ARC, which is amazing…I’d hate to put bandwidth before quality and stay stuck in the mp3 days…that’s awful. We’ve evolved so much with Quobuz, Tidal and ROON. Sorry to go on about this….