Best MQA sound from Tidal on Roon on Arcam AV40

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#Roon Core Machine
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Tidal hifi plus

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Arcam AV40

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Description of Issue

What is the best settings within Roon for my Arcam AV40 in which to get a full unfold off a Tidal MQA masters track?

Is the Arcam capable of a full unfold?

Or should I be using the ROCK as a core decoder and the Arcam as a renderer?

I’ve noticed when I’ve done those settings that roon ready logo disappears from the Arcam, which is the best settings for the Roon software and DAC on the Arcam?

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Hi Kevin,

In Roon, set your AV40 to decoder and renderer.

If you apply any DSP in Roon, enable MQA core decode in Roon.

Hope this makes sense :slight_smile:

Some additional info here and here.

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Can you tell me why the Roon ready logo disappears when decoding and rendering.? Does that cause any detrimental problems to the sound?

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Would not know why the logo disappears.

Try setting your Arcam to renderer and enable Roon core decode.

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Hey Kevin,

Your question about the Roon Ready logo on Arcam disappearing, I would say Arcam would be in a better position to answer that. As long as the signal path is announcing bit perfect in Roon, i think you are good.

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Hey @kevin_hough,

If you can tell us how you have your settings configured when the light goes out? Is this a Roon or MQA indicator light? Thanks

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Hi Jamie I’ve managed to get it sorted thanks now all working fine, i just unticked the mqa core decoder and set the rendering to… Decoder and renderer… Now on a flac 16 bit file the roon ready indicator lights, when a mqa file plays the mqa light… Lights… The two lights are on top of each other they can’t light up at the same time. I’ve now got a far better understanding how it works.

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Hey @kevin_hough

I’m glad that things are working for you now! Please feel free to reach out if you ever have any other questions or issues. Happy listening :headphones:

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