Does Tidal HiFi use MQA?
No, Tidal HiFi does not use MQA. Tidal HiFi uses the FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) format, which is a lossless audio format that preserves all of the original audio information in the music recording. Tidal Master, on the other hand, uses the MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) format. MQA is a lossy audio format, but …