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The Lenbrook Group, developer of the BluOS hi-res music platform and owner of the NAD, PSB, and Bluesound brands, today announced the formation of a new business unit to spearhead the company’s expansion into content delivery.

The Lenbrook Media Group was created to “more effectively enable the commercialization and development of Lenbrook’s content management solutions, as well as pursue new opportunities that fit Lenbrook’s vision to offer increased choice to music fans and enthusiasts for quality audio,” according to the press announcement.

With the BluOS content-management platform at its core, the group will also manage the growth of the MQA and SCL6 (formerly MQAir) audio encoding technologies Lenbrook took possession of in September when it acquired the assets of MQA Ltd., which filed for bankruptcy protection in April 2023.

“The acquisition of MQA’s assets complemented our existing BluOS platform and supports creators in the recording studio with capturing, and delivering directly and in the highest quality, their art into the homes of music lovers,” said Gordon Simmonds, president and CEO of the Lenbrook Group. “Creating the Lenbrook Media Group allows us to fully capitalize on this unique position by giving it focus, and putting the right strategies, structure, and resources in place.”

The new entity will be led by newly-appointed vice president and general manager, Mike Jbara, former CEO of MQA CEO and Warner Music executive.

“Once you combine Lenbrook’s vision for advancing choice and innovation in the performance audio industry with the assembly of some of the best minds in audio hardware and software engineering, it results in substantive opportunity to empower creators, distributors, fans, and broadcasters in addition to hardware manufacturers,” Jbara said. “It is an exciting list of possibilities that we believe will benefit both the music and the specialty audio industries.”