This is where the Authentication comes into play, you get what they signed off, whatever that was and your decoder will verify this as an authentication light/symbol.

We can't expect more from an un-decoded file beyond the knowledge that it will be better than CD due to the MQA process.

So much is still down to the care taken in production of the music though.

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