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I’ve always felt MQA was a necessary evil.

MQA was needed for a few reasons. At that time, not everyone had access to fast internet. I could perhaps handle one MQA stream at my place. Two would have decimated my Internet. Now I can say bring on lossless 24/192 FLAC all day every day.

Two, it allowed studios to dip their toes to release high res quality recordings to the streaming community - I’m sure MQA must have touted their DRM like capabilities to them. It reassured them and then showed them the sky didn’t fall when they did release their “masters”. Without MQA, we would not have Amazon UHD music or Apple Music lossless coming today.

So I was happy to get TIDAL MQA 5 years ago. That led me to the choices I have today.