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 Renderer’ - Roon will not decode but pass through to a MQA DAC for full hardware decoding. Do not use DSP+Room correction as this will disrupt the stream?
Decoder Only - Roon will not decode and pass through a MQA hardware decoder, for example like network bridges with built-in MQA capabilities? Do not use DSP+Room correction as this will disrupt the stream?
Renderer Only - MQA will decode and pass through a renderer device, example dragonfly? Do not use DSP+Room correction as this will disrupt the stream?
If ‘Enable MQA Core Decoder’ is not enabled no software decoding will take place.