So much for MQA on Tidal, with the music streaming service announcing that it will soon wipe any remaining MQA-encoded tracks from its catalog of tunes. Also going out with the bathwater are tracks ...

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 ...

The average Joe may be happy to listen to music at the low-resolution quality offered by Spotify and Apple Music, but uncompromising audiophiles tend to prefer the lossless streams provided by Tidal.

When MQA director of licensing Andy Dowell spoke at the Music Week Tech Summit earlier this year, he did so as a key player at one of the most innovative music companies around. Using MQA’s unique ...

Things appeared to be looking up for MQA. The company behind one of the audio world’s most controversial technologies recently launched a new (and largely unrelated) piece of tech called the SCL6 ...

MQA, the embattled U.K. audio technology company founded by Bob Stuart, has a new owner in Canada-based Lenbrook, the parent company of Bluesound, NAD, and PSB Speakers. Financial details haven’t been ...

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 ...

MQA has filed for the appointment of administrators in the United Kingdom. Will they have to sell off SCL6 to survive? Earlier this week MQA filed paperwork with the UK courts for the Appointment of ...

The recent announcement that MQA Ltd. has entered into administration has been one of the most significant news stories of the year so far within the world of audio tech. As a result of the company’s ...

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 ...

Tidal has announced that its highest-quality streaming format – Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) – is now supported by the iPhone. MQA had previously been limited to higher-end music players and ...