Ken Forsythe gave a technical overview of the MQA technology last night in NYC to a few Hitchhikers. The result of some recently discovered medical research that explained why 24/192 digital audio files sounded 'better' and 24/384 sounded ever-so-slightly better led to a better understanding of the psychoacoustics of timing as opposed to frequency. Meridian built an encoder/decoder that allowed them to summarize the musical parts of the audio stream and hide data under the 'noise floor'.

Ken said last night that while the primary focus was on increasing the fidelity of convenient streamable audio, digital MQA files would eventually be sold on sites such as HDtracks, and because of the properties of the metadata, they can be downloaded faster & cheaper, authenticated, with very high fidelity (assuming they are decoded in HW or SW by a MQA capable DAC or SW library).

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