If one own a MQA DAC, software decoding must be off so that MQA hardware decoding can take over. Don’t seems to find any settings for that.

Device advanced settings. At the very bottom. I think the setting to disable should be a little more prominent. [image]

Alternatively, in the MQA device setup Roon should identify the device as either a decoder/renderer or a renderer. If it is properly identified then Roon will preserve rendering information and turn off software decoding as appropriate. If it is not properly identified then let Support know and manu…

Hello @MusicFidelity , As long as you properly report your MQA Device capabilities in the Device Setup screen (if they weren’t automatically populated corectly with our new device identification engine), Roon will follow the correct MQA logic for a given playback scenario. If playing to a full decod…

Yours looks different from me… [Settings]

Click “Show Advanced” at the bottom and scroll down.

[image] DrTone: Click “Show Advanced” at the bottom and scroll down. Thank you, Jeff.

[image] MusicFidelity: If one own a MQA DAC, software decoding must be off so that MQA hardware decoding can take over. Don’t seems to find any settings for that. If you set the device’s capabilities to “Decoder + Renderer” or “Decoder”, Roon will not engage the software decoder unless you gi…

Hi @brian , I’m a bit confused here regarding on MQA settings. There are two settings, namely ‘MQA capabilities’ and ‘Enable MQA Core Decoder’. In the ‘MQA capabilities’ there are four of them: ‘No MQA Support’ - Roon will decode and can use DSP+Room correction to a non MQA DAC? ‘Decoder and Ren…

Try this–think about it in terms of goals, instead of use cases. In general, Roon’s goal is to make sure that MQA files are decoded whenever possible. If Roon thinks your DAC can decode, then it’s going to skip software decoder whenever practical, but engage it if you have configured DSP in Roon (…

So, if my DAC (let’s say my Cary DMS-500) is a MQA renderer & decoder, then this new Roon MQA feature on 1.5 is basically a moot point? Nothing new happening that did not happen before with 1.4? Thanks

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