"I am thrilled to work with MQA because our companies both share the same goal to bring the magic of hearing the original live performance to everyone. Teamed with an MQA-enabled device, the listener benefits from the highest possible sound quality, as the music will continue to unfold with precise file and platform-specific DAC compensation and management. With a non MQA-enabled device, any listener can experience enhanced sound. The MQA Core decoder’s initial file ‘unfold’ recovers all the direct music-related information and makes it available for either analogue or digital output at 88.2 or 96 kHz. It also features integration with premium streaming services such as Tidal and Qobuz.
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In addition to optimizing sound quality and authenticating file provenance, Audirvana Plus 3 also allows a complete library management system with full metadata and cover art display for all music, whether stored locally or streamed. Audirvana Plus 3 is now the first software music player to include the MQA Core decoder, allowing to ‘unfold’ MQA and authenticate the files. TIDAL own's player simply relays the MQA file (TIDAL Master Audio) to the hardware decoder for "unfolding". MQA technology delivers master quality audio in a file small enough to stream and is now available on global music streaming platform, TIDAL, since the beginning of 2017, and is also available internationally on several music download services. MQA encoding reduces the size of the music's original master file using a lossless "folding" mechanism which remains compatible with any FLAC/PCM player, but is able to "unfold" the complete information contained in the master, using an MQA hardware decoder.