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Wondering if Oppo has discussed MQA playback?
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barondla
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for Oppo to just have the Tidal ap be enabled. Most of the utility of MQA is in streaming and it would make little sense to add it to firmware for the player. Since Tidal will be the primary conduit for the MQA'd material, having Tidal distribute the decoder within their ap make a lot more sense for Oppo as well as other partners. My guess is that this would cost Oppo nothing, as Tiday would be the licensee.
There has been no indication that Tidal will include a MQA decoder in there software. You more than likely will still need an outboard decoder. I would love to see a decoder in Tidal but don't hold your breath. If you have something that says different please post it
Alan
Bob Stuart confirmed that a software decoder was built and could be implemented in existing products. I do expect Tidal to offer the decoder, especially now that there is a big licensee. It makes the most sense for Tidal to be the big distributor of the soft decoder rather than having products have to be individually certified. Think about who has the dollars here. It isn't Roon or Auralic, or Oppo or Meridian. It's the streaming service and the content owners. Perhaps the big Japanese manufacturers could a firmware decoder for their HT receivers, but for the vast majority of small high-end companies it just won't make sense. Stuart knows that...
I hope your right. The Meridian explorer2 sounds nice playing MQA but I would really like to hear my Audio-GD Master7 playing MQA. I wish Tidal would happen soon. Did Stuart know when?
Alan
Remember if oppo wants to do MQA and they could do it via a firmware update they will have to pay royalties to MQA Limited. If they charge you nothing they will lose money on MQA updates of units in the field. However they may sell more new players if they include MQA and they could raise the price
Alan
ahendler posted a comment over on General where he said "it's the real deal" and I have to agree with him. At the Axpona show in April I spent quite a bit of time in the MQA third floor room listening to music and talking to the MQA rep. Sorry, I don't remember his name. He said there are over 150 different manufacturers of equipment and music services looking at MQA now. It can be software or hardware implemented. The files are smaller than standard HD so it should be appealing in the long run to streaming companies. I tried several times to get cost information from him but each time it came down to whatever the streaming services or sales departments were going to charge. I have a Grace M920 dac and I emailed the company about MQA support but haven't heard back yet. I've got a 105D myself so I'm also hoping Oppo comes up with a software update to enable MQA.
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Alan
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