The return of MQA

We reported recently with some surprise that the Lenbrook Group of Companies had acquired MQA’s technologies after MQA Ltd went into administration last year, despite the compression technology being potentially tainted from the manner in which it was formerly licensed, marketed and maintained by MQA Ltd, and from MQA’s subsequent removal from Tidal, which has now switched fully to FLAC high-res, as it might have better done in the first place. Both MQA files and the even less successful Sony 360 Reality Audio format are being removed from Tidal servers, while the service has recently realigned its subscriptions to deliver high-res (and Atmos versions, which remain) on its single lower-priced subscription ($12.99 a month, or $5.99 for students). Sony’s immersive audio format remains available on Amazon Music and Deezer. But…

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