Looking on the ONKYO music site, there is a selection of MQA tracks/albums.

The Amy Duncan album, along with some others are labelled as 16 Bit 44.1Khz MQA...priced at £9.99.

There are other various albums that state 24 Bit 352.8Khz MQA Studio, these are priced at £16.00.

It does seem that there will be different levels of MQA not 1x original unfolded to suit the level of equipment/DAC you may have.

Its looking like anything recorded pre-MQA may be ran through a process whereby it is known what ADC was originally used and can be compensated for...this being the low level MQA.

Future albums/songs could be directly recorded on an 'MQA-ADC', this would give us the Studio Quality we are all waiting for....maybe some already have??


Still lots of information that hasn't been cascaded that needs to be, regards to different levels of MQA quality/process involvement.

It does seem that some sites are highlighting the level of MQA you are buying and is reflected in the pricing.

How this will pan out regards to the streaming of MQA.....i imagine the differences will be highlighted on the DAC or DSP by the different frequencies used i.e MQA 44.1/92/192/ etc.

I'm still holding out until thinks become a little clearer regards to content.



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