Tidal scraps MQA and spatial audio format – here's what that means for subscribers

[What Hi-Fi?]

From July, 360 Reality Audio and MQA streams will no longer be available on the hi-res service.

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[JR75]

This is disappointing. With hardware decoding of MQA files, music sounds much better than FLAC files. I will have to see what HDTracks eventually comes out with. They have no where near the content of Tidal, but if they amp that up and have MQA, I will probably dump Tidal.