MQA Roon Support

[andybob (Andrew Cox)]

Hi MusicEar,

In December @palbratelund said:

MQA Tidal to launch MQA Hi-Res audio streaming in 2016

At beginning, we will just transport MQA files (in FLAC wrapper) to external hardware that’s supporting MQA decoding. But we will certainly also soft decode in the future also on desktop so you can enjoy MQA quality with any DAC. In mobile applications we will of course soft decode from launch. To begin with it will be a rather limited offering of higher than redbook content, but eventually we will also run all our redbook content through as you then will lose the brickwalling artefacts and als…

A lot of water has flowed under the bridge (or sloshed around in all directions near the bridge) since then.