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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Canadian audio group Lenbrook has announced today that it has acquired the assets of MQA, the British-based technology company that developed the MQA high-resolution audio encoding technique used by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TIDAL HiFi members can now enjoy millions of new MQA tracks from Warner Music Group. Today, TIDAL announced millions of MQA tracks from Warner Music Group have been added to the TIDAL Masters catalog ...

Video: Andy Rubin's Essential Phone: modular, tough, and no logo. The Essential Phone, see our full review, was one of my favorites from 2017 and there is speculation we may not see version 2. It is ...