The Helm Bolt DAC/AMP works with Android, iOS, Windows, Linux and macOS devices without drivers. It plays MQA files as well as other high-res formats. Earlier this week, I reported how TIDAL was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since dropping its price by a significant amount, Tidal has begun the process of removing MQA-compliant tracks from its streaming service. MQA has long been a hot point of discussion. The standard is ...

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 new Cambridge Audio DACMagic 200M can natively decode MQA files as well as virtually any other type of digital file. It includes Bluetooth and has plenty of inputs and outputs. One of my favorite ...

It’s been four years now since Tidal began offering MQA-encoded music files to its subscribers. To those with the right combination of playback software and/or hardware, these files promise to deliver ...

TIDAL is introducing hi-res FLAC to the platform but does that really mean the end of MQA? We take a deeper look into a story that has customers confused. In my coverage last week of MQA’s Chapter 11 ...

Tidal was in the high-resolution music streaming game long before such newcomers as Amazon and Apple, and its format of choice has historically been MQA, a lossy but incredibly efficient high-res ...