DSP with MQA and Meridian

[joel]

@JeremyAH

Is there a way I can tell Roon to preserve the MQA signal while using the DSP settings for room correction, but not actually decode the MQA in any way?

No. Once the folded MQA stream is altered, it is no longer decodable.

@JeremyAH

This all seems to be down to the fact that the Meridian 818 insists on doing the a full MQA decode or seemingly none at all, so it would be a cool work-around to have this as an option. Unless Meridian plan to fix this…

Correct. I would lobby Meridian to get this fixed, which is what I have done (on a personal level). We need firmware for all of Meridian’s products (818v3, 808v6, 218, Explorer², Prime?) which fixes rendering of previously decoded MQA (with intact signalling information, as Roon provides, and other rendering devices are capable of using).