Certified by MQA

About MQA Playback

Silent Angel’s mission is to deliver the best solutions for high-resolution music streaming. We’re pleased to announce that several Silent Angel products are now officially MQA-supported and certified.

What is MQA:

MQA stands for Master Quality Authenticated. Using pioneering scientific research into human hearing mechanisms, MQA’s award-winning technology more closely replicates the sound of the original master recording and packages it for efficient storage and streaming. (Please visit https://www.mqa.co.uk/ for more information about MQA.)

Silent Angel includes MQA(Master Quality Authenticated) technology, which enables you to play back MQA audio files and streams, delivering the sound of the original master recording.

MQA‘ or ‘MQA Studio‘ indicates that the product is decoding and playing an MQA stream or file, and denotes provenance to ensure that the sound is identical to that of the source material. ‘MQA Studio’ indicates it is playing an MQA Studio file, which has either been approved in the studio by the artist/producer or has been verified by the copyright owner.

MQA and the Sound Wave Device are registered trademarks of MQA Limited © 2016

Silent Angel MQA-Supported Models

These Silent Angel devices support MQA audio playback:

System Requirements:

The following System Updates are required to support MQA audio playback:

 

  • Rhein Z1 Plus / Rhein Z1:
    1. Update the Orbiter Plugin to the latest version via VitOS Manager.
    2. Update the VitOS Orbiter APP to the latest version
  • Munich M1 / M1T:
    1. Update the firmware to the latest version
    2. Update the VitOS Orbiter APP to the latest version

How Do You Know MQA Audio Is Working?

When an MQA audio file is playing, you can see a little MQA icon displayed below the music control button bar.

Please Note: MQA for Roon-Ready is not yet available, we’re working on it with Roon Lab, and it will be released soon.