Tidal / MQA track specs?

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    Tony W.
    Product Support Manager

    What you are seeing is correct - MQA is whatever the original master recording was. If the original recording was say 24/48 (as much content from the mid-1980s to early 1990s was), the content is not being upsampled to 24/192 just for the sake of adding the 24/192 badge. Upsampling is technically distorting as you are altering the original by adding information that does not exist.

  • August West

    MQA has been perpetually questioned by users and musicians alike, and they have yet to give a straight answer to any public request for comment. I was a Tidal user for about a year, between the UX/UI of the Tidal App and the continued skepticism of what exactly MQA does it is simply not worth the price tag.

    Alll signs point to MQA being a classic “snake oil” instance - consider Apple Music or Amazon Prime Music’s lossless libraries to compliment your NAS library

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