To start with, please do not talk about audiophile snake-oil, etc. This is only about technical aspects of playing back MQA files. Long story short, ended up with an NAD integrated amp for powering ...

Convenience versus quality. It’s a conundrum music lovers wrestle with all the time: would you rather download giant FLAC files that sound identical to the original studio master but need to be ...

This USB DAC is super versatile and relatively inexpensive, but its biggest attraction is its ability to decode MQA tracks. Meridian’s Explorer2 portable digital-to-audio converter can play virtually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MQA audio: What is it? How can you get it?. The first service to offer hi-res streaming was Qobuz, followed soon after by Tidal ...

OPPO Digital just released a new firmware update for their UDP-205 universal disc player, which adds support for MQA encoded digital music files. This firmware update is OPPO’s first step in ...

Another music-download service and more audio suppliers have embraced the high-resolution MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) format. 2L’s download store offers more than 120 MQA albums. Meantime, ...

The average Joe may be happy to listen to music at the low-resolution quality offered by Spotify and Apple Music, but uncompromising audiophiles tend to prefer the lossless streams provided by Tidal.

LAS VEGAS—Allow me to preface this by saying this is my opinion and not that of TechHive or PCWorld as whole, since I was the only editor there and Tuesday was the first day of the show. With that out ...

LAS VEGAS—Not a lot of audio tech wowed us at CES this year, but MQA certainly stands out from the crowd. Unveiled last year but on display here at the show, MQA is a digital encoding and playback ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. MQA aims to “fundamentally change the way we all enjoy music”. It’s a method of digitally ...