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Bob Stuart Awarded Prince Philip Medal by Royal Academy of Engineering

September 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

LONDON, UK (PTA) — Congratulations are in order for Bob Stuart, the pioneering audio engineer behind MQA. Stuart is the first audio engineer to receive the award in its [...]

dCS brings on MQA

October 19, 2017 // 3 Comments

dCS products age like a fine wine, getting better over the years as the dCS team adds a flurry of new capabilities to keep their products fresh and current. Most of these [...]

Review: Roon, Tidal and totaldac – Part Two – delving into Roon

April 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

This is the second part of a three-part series on living with a computer-based audio system from an analog diehard’s perspective, and how it has changed the way my [...]

Is MQA a canvas of the future?

March 5, 2017 // 3 Comments

by Eric Franklin Shook Sometimes paranoia is having all the facts. In the hierarchy of arts, writers are classed a smidge below clowns and a little above trained seals. So [...]

CES 2017: TIDAL Masters brings MQA

January 6, 2017 // 5 Comments

A juicy tasting of MQA was experienced at T.H.E Show @ Newport on a Meridian Ultra DAC, and ever since we have anxiously awaited the arrival of more MQA content. The day [...]

Newport 2016: Meridian DSP 7200 Special Edition and MQA

July 29, 2016 // 3 Comments

There’s something to be said for 240 lbs of digital-active loudspeakers (analog gain & filtering featuring proprietary Meridian Class-A discrete amplification – [...]

Newport 2016: Sunny’s Audio Video brings Meridian, MQA, Audio Research, Wilson Audio, Audioquest, & HRS

June 11, 2016 // 5 Comments

A day prior to the start of THE Show Newport, Meridian announced their new Reference Meridian Ultra DAC that caught my attention. Looking at the spec sheet- a dedicated [...]

High End 2016: Here we go

May 4, 2016 // 2 Comments

Scot is flying towards Munich; I will be doing the same at dawn. I hate flying that early and would do it for one reason only. It’s that time of the year. The biggest [...]

Vancouver 2015: Element Acoustics presents Acapella

May 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Rafe Arnott Some hi-fi gear just looks the business. You know what I mean? The Focal Grande Utopia loudspeaker, the Da Vinci Gold AAS-Gabriel turntable, the Kondo Ongaku [...]

High End 2015: Meridian and MQA

May 22, 2015 // 1 Comment

Because he’s vastly more organized than I am, Panagiotis scheduled and then dragged us to a series of briefings on Day One, both of us stumbling around on a distinct lack [...]