@Joel
Yep, you're right, so some of what I've written above is incorrect.

More - and correct - information can be found in this Stereophile article.

It appears that MQA encoding can compress a 24bit source-file down into 16bits, therefore allowing the (MQA) CD to be created as true Red-book.

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