User Guide

MQA (Master Quality Authenticated)

MQA is an award-winning British technology that delivers the

sound of the original master recording. The master MQA ﬁle is

fully authenticated and is small enough to stream or download.

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‘MQA’ or ‘MQA.’ indicates that the product is decoding and

playing an MQA ﬁle, and denotes provenance to ensure that the

sound is identical to that of the source material. ‘MQA.’ indicates

it is playing an MQA Studio ﬁle, which has either been approved

in the studio by the artist/producer or has been veriﬁed by the