MQA Labs Announces New Mixing and Mastering Tools at NAMM 2025

During NAMM 2025, MQA Labs is announcing a suite of studio tools that will enable engineers to employ previously unavailable methods for improved impulse response and noise shaping. Harnessing MQA Labs’ advanced approach to time domain performance, the new Plugins by MQA Labs refine detail and resolution with unique control of time-domain and low-level information, giving studios the confidence that the files they deliver to streaming platforms preserve the richness, depth, and detail desired for digital playback.

The newly formed Lenbrook Media Group (LMG), a business unit created on the aftermath of the MQA acquisition in the autumn of 2023, has announced the creation of MQA Labs with a mission to advance the distribution of high resolution audio with a suite of audio processing enhancement, conversion and encoding products for the music supply chain. Its three core solutions now include AIRIA by MQA Labs, essentially the SCL6 adaptive hi-res audio codec; FOQUS by MQA Labs, addressing analog-to-digital conversion; and QRONO by MQA Labs, audio processing enhancements for playback devices.

This article describes a DSP (Digital Signal Processing) technique developed to correct loudspeakers’ frequency domain and time domain distortions. Performance improvements, observed using square wave excitation, are documented here in time domain and frequency domain. This article was originally published in audioXpress, June 2010.

British audio company, Flare Audio, has launched what they describe as “the world’s first ‘fully’ open back headphones”. The Reference R1 uses several patent-pending technologies for driver alignment, reduce enclosure vibration and remove enclosed residual pressure interference (ERPI), to allow distortion free sound, even at full volume. The result, Flare claims, is “a completely new listening experience”.