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MQA Adapter Now Available for Essential Smartphone
SV Staff  |  Nov 16, 2018
Palo Alto, CA-based startup Essential Products has announced that the digital-to-analog (DAC)/adapter that enables its Essential Phone to stream Master Quality Authenticated (MQA)-encoded music via Tidal is now available in the U.S. and Canada.
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MQA and Universal Announce Hi-Res Streaming Plan
SV Staff  |  Feb 16, 2017
MQA and Universal Music Group (UMG) today announced a multi-year agreement under which UMG will use MQA’s encoding technology to make its extensive catalog of master recordings available for high-resolution streaming.
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MQA Announces New Products and Partners
SV Staff  |  Oct 09, 2018
MQA, the U.K.-based company that has developed technology said to capture studio quality audio in a file small enough to stream, announced new partners and MQA-enabled products at the recent Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF).
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MQA Announces Partnerships at Munich Show
SV Staff  |  May 04, 2016
MQA is continuing to build partnerships and momentum for its Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) technology, which aims to bring studio quality playback to the home.
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MQA Audio Tech Marches Onward and Upward
SV Staff  |  Jan 16, 2017
Master Quality Authenticated, or MQA, the end-to-end audio encoding technology invented by digital-audio pioneer Bob Stuart of Meridian fame, continues to gain momentum with several announcements made at CES 2017.
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MQA Comes to CD
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 06, 2017
MQA is coming to CDs, with the first releases arriving from Ottava and Chesky. Master Quality Authenticated is a form of “audio origami” that folds down hi-res audio into more manageable file sizes and streams. It can travel in a “CD quality” stream, so why not release it on CD?
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MQA Goes Wireless
Bob Ankosko  |  Nov 09, 2022
MQA, the high-resolution audio technology developed by Meridian Audio co-founder Bob Stuart, announced today that the prestigious Japan Audio Society (JAS) has certified the new MQAir codec for its ability to transmit high-resolution audio wirelessly.
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MQA Inks Global Deal with Warner Music Group
SV Staff  |  May 06, 2016
Warner Music Group (WMG) today announced a long-term global licensing deal with MQA, the company’s first deal with a major music company.
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MQA Momentum Continues in Munich
SV Staff  |  May 08, 2018
MQA Ltd. expects a “record number” of demonstrations of its Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) audio-encoding and MQA Live technologies to take place at the High End Munich trade fair that opens Thursday in Germany.
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MQA Momentum Continues with New Partnerships
SV Staff  |  May 12, 2017
Music technology company MQA, creator of the end-to-end audio encoding technology Master Quality Authenticated (MQA), has announced new partnerships and the availability of an MQA-enabling firmware update for AudioQuest’s popular DragonFly series of portable USB DACS.
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MQA Music Encoding Tech Gains New Supporters
SV Staff  |  Oct 02, 2015
Mytek Digital and AudioQuest are the latest companies to support the MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) technology created by Meridian founder Bob Stuart, which enables high-resolution music files to be streamed efficiently without sonic compromise. The technology has been adopted by the streaming service Tidal.
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MQA Strikes Deal with Indie Music Labels
SV Staff  |  May 16, 2017
MQA, creator of the end-to-end audio encoding technology Master Quality Authenticated (MQA), has entered into a multi-year agreement with digital rights agency Merlin that paves the way for the independent music labels it represents to encode their master recordings in the MQA format.
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MQA Update Now Available for Bluesound Systems
SV Staff  |  Jun 01, 2016
Bluesound, maker of wireless multiroom music systems and sister company of NAD Electronics and PSB Speakers, today announced the availability of a firmware upgrade that will enable all Bluesound wireless music players to play MQA music files.
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MQA Update Now Available for Pioneer and Onkyo Portable Music Players
SV Staff  |  Apr 12, 2016
Starting today, a free MQA update is available for Pioneer’s XDP-100R digital audio player ($700) and Onkyo’s just released DP-X1 ($900).

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MQA, Bluesound to Present Live-Streamed Concerts
SV Staff  |  Jan 15, 2020
Music technology company MQA and Bluesound, sister brand to audio stalwarts NAD and PSB, have teamed up with British Underground and Jazz re:freshed to present the Master Sessions series of concerts that will be live-streamed to audio retailers around the world.
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