I'm eagerly awaiting the ability to listen to MQA in my own home ... on the plus side of getting a deal done, apparently there are only 3 large labels now, controlling 80% of the market in music (Sony, Warner, and Universal - EMI was split up and sold off by bankers when a private equity company failed to comply with loan covenants).

Plenty of physical CD's are still sold in Japan (2015 showed no major signs of decrease) ... but streaming surpassed physical purchases of CD's in the United States in 2014 and crucially, continues to climb.

I would love to stream MQA versions of 60's Dylan or Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young etc. over the internet and straight into my MQA-enabled processor and DSP speakers. To me, MQA feels like the logical next step - a audiophile format designed to have conservative bandwidth requirements, but near-lifelike reproduction of musical recordings.

Having heard a small taste, I am eager for the major labels to sign and deploy their catalogs over Tidal. I still, however, will accumulate physical media (CDs and DVD/Blu Rays) for my favorite artists. Hopefully after MQA and the later labels/TIDAL sign up, other, smaller labels like ECM will follow.

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