LENBROOK MEDIA GROUP UNITES BLUOS, MQA AND SCL6

Lenbrook Media Group has been created to commercialize BluOS, MQA, and SCL6 across the hi-res music supply chain.

The Lenbrook Group of Companies, owner of HiFi brands including NAD Electronics, PSB Speakers, and Bluesound and the BluOS hi-res multiroom platform, has created a new business unit, Lenbrook Media Group.

We brought you the news last September that Lenbrook had acquired MQA and their SCL6 codec. MQA is a hi-res audio packaging and delivery codec and SCL6 is an adaptive hi-res audio codec designed for wireless and mobile applications, formerly known as MQAir.

LENBROOK MEDIA GROUP

Lenbrook Media Group will be led by newly-appointed Vice-President and General Manager, Mike Jbara, the former MQA CEO and Warner Music executive.

The new entity will “more effectively enable the commercialization and development of Lenbrook’s content management solutions”, as well as pursue new opportunities that fit Lenbrook’s vision to offer “increased choice to music fans and enthusiasts for quality audio”. With the BluOS content management platform at its core, this group will also oversee the growth of content encoding solutions MQA and SCL6 which Lenbrook acquired in the autumn of 2023.

MQA

“The acquisition of MQA’s assets complemented our existing BluOS platform and supports creators in the recording studio with capturing and delivering directly and in the highest quality, their art into the homes of music lovers. Creating the Lenbrook Media Group allows us to fully capitalize on this unique position by giving it focus, and putting the right strategies, structure, and resources in place”. Gordon Simmonds, President and CEO of The Lenbrook Group of Companies.

Jbara says, “Once you combine Lenbrook’s vision for advancing choice and innovation in the performance audio industry with the assembly of some of the best minds in audio hardware and software engineering, it results in substantive opportunity to empower creators, distributors, fans, and broadcasters in addition to hardware manufacturers. It is an exciting list of possibilities that we believe will benefit both the music and the specialty audio industries.”

CES 2024

Jbara and Lenbrook Media Group colleague, Andy Dowell, Head of Licensing, will attend the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 9^th -12th 2024, and will be taking appointments to discuss licensing, integration, and other opportunities.

HiFi PiG Says: MQA lives on, we will of course keep you updated with more news as we get it.