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@Asa Link?

The model for MQA is fairly simple. Streaming free (Spotify) results in paltry royalty payments; the studios are looking to drive premium streaming subscriptions for which the royalty payments will be bigger; and the incentive is higher quality.

We'll find out soon enough whether this will be handled as two different subscription tiers (CD quality and >CD quality). Technically, I think it would be straightforward for the likes of TIDAL to "nobble" the MQA trivially at source (e.g. remove critical MQA metadata from the streamed FLAC container whilst leaving the (pre-apodized) PCM intact).