dCS Bartok MQA Rendering Only?

Audio Gear Talk MQA
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dCS Bartok is a full decoder/renderer, but I can’t seem to get it to work by MQA passthrough. On the device setting, I set MQA capabilities as “Decoder and Renderer” but in the advanced, I have to set “Enable MQA code decoder” to “Yes.” then this is the play setting:

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If I set “Enable MQA code decoder” to “No”, then here’s what happens:

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Is this how it is supposed to be? So I can only use it as a renderer? How do I pass through the MQA track so that the Bartok can do both decoding and rendering?

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You have volume leveling enabled. Any DSP processing (which includes the volume leveler) means Roon has to do the first decode.

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Thanks for the quick and exact answer I was looking for. The volume leveling doesn’t work well with Tidal/Qobuz, so I am willing to live without it.