Is MQA the Future of HD Music?
June 15, 2016 Comments Off on Is MQA the Future of HD Music?
“MQA will make your current DAC obsolete. Yes, I know that sucks. You might start to hate MQA. But hold on, aren’t you sick and tired of buying Dark Side of The Moon again and again and again? You bet your ruby-tipped stylus you are. So here’s the deal: Tidal has promised, in the very near future, to begin streaming MQA-encoded files to your MQA-aware and MQA-compatible DAC at the highest resolution it can support–which can be exactly the same format and bitrate as the first-gen digital master–yet the file will take up only one-tenth of the bandwidth of the comparable and original 256X DSD master file. Because MQA folds the high-resolution information into the noise floor of a 44.1/16 or 48/16 file and then unfolds it at its destination, it saves a ton of bandwidth and storage space. While storage space may not matter much to end users anymore, it matters a lot to the server farms that store and supply the streaming services’ data. And the final result will sound better…”
Audiophilepure 
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