Well, if you will need to pay more for Tidal account or streamer/DAC it will damage... your budget.
One have to admit MQA is very intelligently designed product. Something like you eat cake and you have cake. You do not have to pay for it and you have it. But if you look closer it is a bit different story. It is intelligent product for Meridian, for others not so. If you are DAC producer you will need to pay for it and share bits of your design(!). Licencing will probably affect everyone who wants to have MQA certification on their product. At the end of the day, customer will need to cover this cost.
And if you want to use it for free like now on Tidal... you will only get small piece of cake, and if you like it and want more, you have to pay. You need hardware with MQA certification ($). This photo explains how it works:
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- Tidal still 20
- dac Mqa inexpensive..i have one
-Mqa likely to be checking implemention re your comment on design
-licensing costs on dac guess work on your part and unlikely imv as Mqa revenue will come from software
- all that other cobblers about cake ..