The best part about MQA bankruptcy..

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.

I was really angry at TAS for going whole hog on MQA.  I remember Steven Stone saying that everyone now had an obsolete DAC.  Canceled my subscription and never renewed.

  Still…I continue mourning the slow death of SACD, and the stillborn DVD-A.  BluRay also seems headed the way of the Dodo.  MQA may not actually be dead, just reorganizing financially.  I don’t care for MQA but hate to see another format in trouble, even if this one seemed rapacious 

Decades ago when CD sales took over albums and vinyl sales went down and down, as CD players and CD sales went up and up. Digital got better and haters of albums and turntables were saying you were a fool to keep albums. Manufacturers of quality turntables stopped making them, companies went out of business. Companies stopped making record albums. I always welcomed both formats and kinda ignored the haters. I couldn’t understand why people jumped over to the CD format and kept saying albums were sooooo bad. Now albums have come back, sales have gone way up.... past CDs. Even with HQ digital, albums are touted as better sounding??? So what is it really? Are we fools for luving analog? Are we fools for luving digital.... even MQA? Who is trying to make mega bucks from audiophiles? The turntable, cartridge and record album manufactures? Alongside the sleazy MQA developers? Even to this day... the debate rages on... digital is better than analog, analog is better than digital???

I say welcome any new format and buy what you want, nobody bends your arm. And please don’t try to convince me one format sounds better than another or one developer is trying to make money off the average guy...that debate has been going on for years.