MQA is Vaporware

[jtwrace]

Does this change any views?

 

http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f8-general-forum/big-mqa-news-really-tidal-and-software-decoding-etc-31151/

 

Does it change yours?

[jtwrace]

Yes, with 30,000 major label tracks available today, I no longer think MQA is vaporware.

 

Fair enough. I still can't find it in TIDAL using Roon. What am I missing?!?!

 

[jtwrace]

I didn't check, but are those the same ones highresaudio.com is selling as downloads with 2€ extra price per album compared to the non-MQA hires? It would be of course easy for Tidal to add those albums that already existed in MQA.

 

I've been buying bunch of albums from there in both MQA and original non-MQA hires for technical comparison purposes.

 

Will you be publishing something to show if the MQA thing is good or not?

[jtwrace]

Yes, here is my review-

 

MQA is 100% worth every single cent I paid for it and then some, bargain of the cemtury

 

Yeah, I'm talking about a more objective review.

[jtwrace]

One of the more interesting announcements at CES came from Rhapsody/Napster and Pandora - they will both stream hi-res content this year. Part 2 of that news is they will not be using MQA.

 

Good.

[jtwrace]

I'm so tired of MQA being able to have the power to play and not be able to force Roon to not play any MQA tracks.  I'd have no issue with Qobuz but I do find that Tidal has a better selection for some of the obscure things I tend to like.