# TIDAL's upcoming MQA changes? What are they? **URL:** \ **Category:** TIDAL\ **Created:** [May 4, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tidals-upcoming-mqa-changes-what-are-they/158380 "2021-05-04T22:53:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![dabassgoesboomboom](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/dabassgoesboomboom/32/131673_2.png) [@dabassgoesboomboom](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/dabassgoesboomboom)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 12:19am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tidals-upcoming-mqa-changes-what-are-they/158380/3 "2021-05-05T00:19:26Z")
2 threads already been discussing > [@Tidal “HiFi Plus” Introduced](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tidal-hifi-plus-introduced/157461): > > [@New TIDAL tiers and MQA](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/new-tidal-tiers-and-mqa/157785): > > This is a great suggestion on the surface, but as I understand it now Tidal no longer provides standard PCM 16/44 for much of their catalog, having replaced it with lossy MQA. If we do this, won’t we be streamed MQA anyways when we play these albums, and if this is true how will it help you as Roon will still rightly detect the source file as being MQA correct? --- _[View the full topic](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tidals-upcoming-mqa-changes-what-are-they/158380)._