MQA – just what is going on here?

The MQA ‘thing’ always makes me uncomfortable — the technical explanation seems implausible (the whole less is more thing? I’m with Yngwie on this….’it’s impossible; more is more’) and then the sense that you have no real ownership of the music you purchase. It all makes me uneasy. I get that some love it, feel it sounds superior, but I’ve learned to take a lot of claims from the audio review world with a pinch of salt. Anyway, we all make our own minds up, right? Good, as long as we have choices and I can keep spinning my records and own the music I buy forever. Now, have a look at this: