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RE: Mastersound (MQA) on Tidal streaming

Posted by PAR on January 6, 2017 at 09:43:39:
I wondered if PS Audio had provided an online update of your DAC which incorporated MQA decoding but as I have discovered from their website that it went out of production some time ago this seems unlikely. In any case there ought to be some kind of tell-tale for MQA on the display as that is, I believe, part of the licensing agreement aside from its practical aspect.

So I have no idea what is happening. I can only say that as far as I am aware Tidal does not have the bandwidth to stream natively in 24/96 and that if you could get 24/88.2 or 24/96 from an undecoded MQA enabled stream then no one would need to make decoders and MQA's business plan would be damaged as they would not be able to charge a licensing fee. I believe that somewhat unlikley.

The change in sound quality does not, however, surprise me although the degree that you give it does although that is , of course, subjective.