After Tidal drop out MQA, HD track and Lenbrook announced streaming in AIRIA a scalable bandwidth streaming. In the era high bandwidth streaming I don’t see the need. Subscription fee will likely to be high and user must have a proper decoder at the end. All these complications can be simply eliminated using pure FLAC streaming.
Time after time has proven open standard will always win.
It will be just like Tidal HiFi Plus before the MQA drop.
Or not. Adobe launched the digital negative (DNG) format 20 years ago, but big camera makers still don’t support it. (Leica is the exception here.) Converting raw images to standard color spaces may be more complex than filtering and decimating audio samples, but I find the makers’ claims that they need to apply some secret sauce dubious at best.
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