Meridian MQA

[Confused]

The provenance stuff is interesting - he talks about how MQA can't really police, but it does provide provenance and so you are getting assurance that if it says master, it was from the studio master that the label chose as the best source. I'm probably summarising a bit wrong but it was long and some sections I skipped. He talks about their tools specifically looking for hints of upsampling among many other things at the encoding stage, so that its harder for these to sneak through the net and be sold as 'master', but it's acknowledged that upsampling is routinely and acceptably used on samples etc so it's not so clear cut.

I know I sound cynical re MQA, but the provenance aspect I get.  Assuming somehow I end up with a system that will play MQA correctly (not certain in Devialet land), then MQA recorded material would certainly be of interest.