Essential Products to Build MQA Audio Capability Into Its Smartphone

Essential Products, the company that Android co-founder Andy Rubin started a year ago, will build Master Quality Authenticated audio capability into its smartphone, said Essential and MQA in a joint announcement Thursday. Essential customers will be able to stream MQA music via the Tidal platform by downloading the Android app from Google Play, they said. Tidal “is constantly adding more master-quality music, allowing fans to hear the sound of the original recording,” they said. With the collaboration, the goal “is to deliver the best audio quality to as many music fans as possible,” they said.