In the innovative history of recorded sound, a strange and rather disappointing trend emerged in the era of digital audio: despite the convenience, the quality of the sound got worse. To longtime ...

High-resolution MQA-format music playback is coming to portable music players for the first time through sister brands Onkyo and Pioneer. Pioneer is adding MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) playback ...

It’s been over a year since MQA Ltd. entered into administration, the British equivalent to filing for bankruptcy. Not long afterward, Tidal — the only major streaming service to use MQA technology — ...

MQair is MQA’s new scalable real-time audio transmission protocol which aims to improve sound quality through wireless headphones or speakers. Nearly 8 years after the introduction of MQA, Bob Stuart ...

Made official this morning, Essential Phone owners have just picked up MQA audio support for the Tidal application. Before you ask me wtf MQA is, it’s Master Quality Authenticated, which means it’s as ...

When it comes to discussions of digital audio, you’ll quickly run into an alphabet soup of acronyms: MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, DSD, and so on. It’s practically endless. You’d think that with this ...

It’s been four years now since Tidal began offering MQA-encoded music files to its subscribers. To those with the right combination of playback software and/or hardware, these files promise to deliver ...

Tokyo / London, 16 March 2017: A recording by Astor Piazzolla “the single most important figure in the history of tango” will be the first MQA recording to be released on compact disc in Japan. The ...

Devices supporting high-resolution audio continue to grow in number, with receivers, wireless speakers, portable media players, and even some phones supporting the format. What hi-res audio truly ...

MQA is an audio format that claims to use a unique “origami” algorithm, promising better quality and more musicality than other formats. At times, it’s been claimed to be a lossless format in so many ...

Feature packed $499 DAC and Headphone Amplifier adds native MQA support and processes hi-res audio up to 32-bit/768kHz (PCM) and DSD512. British audio specialists Cambridge Audio, today announced ...