Master Quality Authenticated
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Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) is an audio codec using lossy compression and a form of file fingerprinting, intended for high fidelity digital audio internet streaming and file download. Launched in 2014 by Meridian Audio, it is now owned and licensed by MQA Ltd, which was founded by Bob Stuart, co-founder of Meridian Audio.

REALLY? BLAH

EDIT: and fuck Tidal, because they completely removed lossless quality music

 

Last edited: Apr 16, 2021

What the fucc is MQA? I never heard about this shit before.
Master Quality Authenticated
What a name. Audio Voodoo smelly

To extend to the best quality possible You need to buy this:

Audiophile Rocks Obscurum - Audiophile Stool
Price (per piece): $2,000 USD

 

Price (per piece): $2,000 USD



now on more serious note, apparently it's what streaming services will start using to pretend crappy MP3 will magically become lossless noise
Tidal already fucked up their entire lossless library by converting stuff into this lossy shit

 

What?
Who works there?
LOL

 

MQA identifier

https://github.com/purpl3F0x/MQA_identifier

one for Python

https://github.com/redsudo/mqaid

 

Pyramidal capstone/pyramidion is paramount to reproduce MQA T.A.S. content..
(Master Quality Authenticated True Audiophile Shit)

 

This looks so incredibly wrong on so many levels...

 

Yeah. *.opus would be much better choice or even *.mp3
If they need space or higher streaming speed.
Whatever LOL

 

You know which format is really "Master Quality Authenticated"?
A fucking *.WAV



Swallow this morrons who invented MQA

 

Yes. Or FLAC, or a lame .rar file with all the wavs. Anything lossless. Doesn't make sense.

Everyone familiar with audio/image/video lossless compression knows there's no magic new codecs.
It's a continued refinement process of advanced but known techniques, being frequency manipulation the basis.

 

Worth a read:

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...i-published-music-on-tidal-to-test-mqa.22549/

Jesus Harry Christ on a unicycle. That's fucking terrible.

 

yup that's the thread for the video I posted

 

FabienTDR demystified this year or two ago on gearslutz/gearspace

 

Wow...
"In fact the 44.1khz MQA file is a few megabytes bigger than the FLAC master I provided"
Seriously scary shit, not for the faint of heart.