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FWIW, 16-bit MQA on these CDs is *not* the same as the 24-bit FLACs which no doubt will be streamable very soon. I thought that "MQA is MQA" until I talked to a member of the MQA R&D team at The Shard MQA launch. To paraphrase his words: you have a third less space, so something has to give; there is no free lunch. Presumably this will manifest as lower dynamic range, though how much of this is audible, who can say. In any case, I won't be buying any MQA CDs.