The trend towards streaming better quality audio just go a little more interesting thanks to an offer that Jay Z, the rapper and very serious entrepreneur made last Friday for Swedish company Aspiro better known by audio enthusiasts as Wimp/Tidal. One of his companies has offered a reported $56 million for a service that only has 512,000 paying users. ...

Here's what Robert Stuart said about MQA at the end of the YouTube video introducing the technology:

"MQA is a revolutionary new British technology that allows us to capture the nuance and all of the detail of the original music performance but to put it in a file that is small enough to download or to stream today."
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This headline is is front and center at the Meridian sponsored website Music Is Changing. I received a note from a reader today (thanks very much for the info) about a big announcement that will be happening on December 4. The site has a big counter ticking away the seconds until we can find out what Meridian has to say. At the top of the page are the letter "MQA", which is obviously an acronym for something. ...