“MQA is a philosophy”..John Stuart

jane hamble... With 39 posts, I read all your posts. You read like a younger version of myself. Congratulations, and good luck (you will need it)
In my 70th year on this planet I find I do not hear much NEW music worth listening to. Of all the ’top’ albums in the past fifteen years, I have found only a few I like. I bought them on LP. My audio life is pretty much enjoying the past 100 years of recorded music. Rock, Jazz and Classical in equal measure. Most recent/new Rock/Pop music generally is made up of bands incapable of inventing new music, playing basic chords over and over (badly BTW), bad sounding singers with poor technique droning on about stuff I could care less about! I spend my listening time with stuff I like.
If not enjoying the endless stream of new drivel makes me a closed mind. no problem.I accept the mantel and wear it like a crown.
If you are writing about not being interested in new equipment? MQA is not the first new thing in the Universe. It may work, it may fail. Basically I stated not my problem, and why. Beyond that it does not matter (to me). It may matter to you? Again not my problem.

I don't consider my position to be closed minded. I don't own an SACD player or even a CD player, everything is digital files--10 Tb in the server with back-up, 4Tb of 16/44, 24/96 FLAC and MP3-320 files.

Can we improve upon the sound of 24/192 PCM?
 like @elizabeth,

Don't Know, Don't Care.

When I stopped watching TV and started listening to my Musical Medicine, I lost interest in the clown car and circus parade which is the daily "news" 

Now, tell me about a Jazz player I need to hear...

@cj1965 some excellent points there.

I own SACD, CD. But I now stream MQA through Tidal. Compare to 44k/16bit, MQA does sounds better. Since it come with Tidal HiFi. Why not listen to them? I recently acquired an Opportunity 205 enable me to do SACD/CD/4K/MQA. I am open to any formate that improve my listening experience.

I am constantly seeking out new music, much of which is older -- until I recently brought digital into my systems, there were many recordings I did not have access to. 
In my case, I suppose being uninformed is better than being misinformed, I gather the industry is promoting MQA and there is a fair amount of resistance to it from the audiophile community. Rather than stake out a position-- since I don't really have one-- I have a few questions:
1. Wasn't MQA through some sort of file compression, supposed to facilitate streaming of hi-rez files which could get bottlenecked in the passage from the originating server to the user's player?
2. Is DRM part of the code, or is it simply a fear that once you allow a standard like this to gain traction, that is a potential next step?