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The Montreux Years is an artist-themed series mined from the legendary festival’s archives. The result of a collaboration between Montreux Jazz Festival and music company BMG, the live releases available in MQA bring together seminal performances, alongside rare and unreleased recordings, of iconic artists such as Nina Simone and Etta James.
MQA unlocks every detail of the original master recording.
Discover what that means for music creators and their fans.
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We’ve been busy forging new relationships with musicians, record labels and music lovers around the world.
“Music fans will love it when they hear it, and WMG is thrilled to be partnering with MQA to take the next step in bringing hi-resolution music to consumers across the globe.”
“With MQA, we are working with a partner whose technology is among the best solutions for streaming Hi-Res Audio, and one that doesn't ask music fans to compromise on sound quality for convenience.”
MQA stands for Master Quality Authenticated. Using pioneering scientific research into how people hear, MQA's award-winning technology captures and authenticates the sound of the original master recording, and packages it in a file small enough to stream or download.
We work closely with our audio hardware partners to enable MQA integration into their devices for authenticated playback. We also support our record label and music service partners to ensure master recordings are encoded and delivered to a growing number of services. Visit How to get MQA section for the most up-to-date list.
MQA’s commitment is to deliver the master recording all the way through to the music fan. Our aim is to reinstate audio quality - too long sacrificed for convenience - as an important ingredient for music. Only MQA can supply the original sound, directly from the studio master, in the highest quality, using less data, while authenticating provenance.
