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MQA has been five years in development. The studios have been involved for at least three of those.
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Hopefully, MQA will be another instance of: "It takes years of hard work to be an overnight success" 
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FYI There was much anticipation that Meridian would make an important announcement about its Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) technology, but the press conference was more of an overview of how the technology works. I did, however, speak privately with MQA co-architect Bob Stuart, who told me that he was “delighted with the progress with the record labels,” but feels it’s preferable for everyone to “cross the road at the same time.” Since my article on MQA appeared in the Issue 253, the number of MQA licensees has more than doubled to over 100. I’m scheduled to receive Meridian’s flagship 808 CD player/DAC with MQA and some MQA files in July and will write a full report. Incidentally, Meridian has spun MQA off into a separate company.
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"Originally Posted By TAS September 2015" I take it TAS is a time-traveller  Interesting, though. Over 100 licensees shows definite promise.
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Very promising news indeed!
Would be good to get hold of some demo content though, my Explorer2 has impressed a good number of listeners who all want to hear MQA.
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FYI There was much anticipation that Meridian would make an important announcement about its Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) technology, but the press conference was more of an overview of how the technology works. I did, however, speak privately with MQA co-architect Bob Stuart, who told me that he was “delighted with the progress with the record labels,” but feels it’s preferable for everyone to “cross the road at the same time.” Since my article on MQA appeared in the Issue 253, the number of MQA licensees has more than doubled to over 100. I’m scheduled to receive Meridian’s flagship 808 CD player/DAC with MQA and some MQA files in July and will write a full report. Incidentally, Meridian has spun MQA off into a separate company. Thanks for posting this. It sounds like very good news with such a dramatic increase in licensees. Like some others here I was told that the new 808 would be available by the end of March. It has been, and continues to be, something of a waiting game.
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Not such positive news on the Naim site. We had the MQA guys down several months ago to take a look at their 'tech'.
It's interesting but until / unless it gains some traction then as JH says there's not much point in implementing it just for the fun of it. I assume Meridian was interested in gaining take-up for both electronics and music.
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More music than electronics please. As has been said many a time, without content MQA is a non starter. Hopefully by the end of August we'll have some positive info. The waiting continues  Del (TD4)
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Not such positive news on the Naim site. We had the MQA guys down several months ago to take a look at their 'tech'.
It's interesting but until / unless it gains some traction then as JH says there's not much point in implementing it just for the fun of it. I assume Meridian was interested in gaining take-up for both electronics and music. Well that'll be Naim then. Nice guys but not exactly known for pushing the boundaries. We'll wait for everyone else and if it is a success we'll jump on the bandwagon. I'm confident there are others with a more pro-active approach.
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A lot of interesting reading at realhd-audio.com including this article on MQA , where Mark Waldrep says However, as important as this new technology is…it doesn’t make any changes to the original signal. It’s doesn’t reveal any additional nuances or fidelity in the original recording. The claims that it results in an improvement in fidelity over the source are misplaced. and MQA is an important stepping-stone in the evolution of music delivery NOT a revolution is sound quality. Thoughts / comments ?
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Another point of query / discussion : where is the little blue light (MQA stream active / confirmed) going to go on my 861v8 ?
And where is it going to go on everyone else's Processor / DAC ?
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The little blue light is replaced by the letters "MQA" on the processor screen or the DSP panel - just as easy to understand as a blue light. I'm sure the 861 will get it eventually.
The Waldrep article is quite old and was written before the DAC management aspects of MQA were properly understood.
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