HiResAudio Plans to Drop MQA Encoded Downloads Due to Poor Sales

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It's another lossy format. Good riddance!
Download lossless FLAC files. :)
 
To be honest, I have a bad case of format-fatigue. Vinyl seems to be the only industry 'constant'. DVD-Audio had a shorter shelf life than the 8-track tape. :confused:
 
Poor sales might be the line they're going with now, but this isn't what they were saying on their facebook page at the time.

This was the original post they made, which was quickly deleted:

Breaking News: HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA. Proprietary system solutions and licensing models aren't what customers want. MQA is NOT lossless, the original signal is never recovered, estimate to recover at most 17bits (reduces the sampling rate), reduces the frequency range, SNR reduced by 3bit, aliasing with artifacts at 18kHz. MQA encoding filters manipulate drastically the original source. No analysis tools are available to verify the encoded MQA content. Therefore no quality control is possible. highresaudio.com stands for offering purity, original mastering source, none manipulated, tweaked or up-sampled content and codecs that are widely supported and offer use of freedom.

"We hope that MQA will adjust all the above issues. We are truly disappointed, the way MQA has progressed in the past year. We have been mislead and blinded by trust and promises."

The next day it was replaced by this post, which has also since been deleted:

Breaking News: HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA. We decided not to offer and support MQA any longer. We will take MQA out of the shop by 01.03. We already have taken down the MQA icon and search function in our shop.

"HIGHRESAUDIO stands for offering purity, original mastering source, none manipulated, tweaked or up-sampled content and codecs that are widely supported and offer use of freedom. You can trust us in what we do and have to offer!

We sincerely hope for the future, that MQA will supply analysis and verification tools in order to ensure the quality of product.

P.S. This is a revised version from our post yesterday! Which was not a fake. Upon request from MQA, we deleted that post."

Seems to me the MQA consortium probably exerted some legal or financial pressure on HRA to get them to remove these posts.
 
Poor sales might be the line they're going with now, but this isn't what they were saying on their facebook page at the time.

This was the original post they made, which was quickly deleted:



The next day it was replaced by this post, which has also since been deleted:



Seems to me the MQA consortium probably exerted some legal or financial pressure on HRA to get them to remove these posts.

Could be. A post on CA forum also says eOnkyo Music US has now dropped their MQA downloads section as well.
 
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