iDSD Black Label not correctly playing MQA tracks

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My iDSD BL will play MQA straight from Tidal and the indicator LED is magenta as it should be,

The same files played from Roon do not cause the magenta change - the light stays white.

Is there a setting somewhere I have wrong, perhaps?

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Hi Marcus. Been some time since I had tidal and an IFI device, however I believe that some time ago in ‘22 the default in the Device Setup was changed from MQA being on to MQA being off.

Perhaps just have a check of the device settings in Roon to check that the MQA process is being correctly applied/turned on.

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Propably any DSP active or Roon volume control?
Maybe you can show your signal path?

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You have a MQA renderer DAC.

You must enable MQA Core decoder in Roon. (You may also disable volume leveling and DSP Engine.)

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:arrow_up:

More specifically: In Roon, Device Settings>MQA Capabilities should be set to Renderer only.
In the Advanced tab Enable MQA Core Decoder should be set to Yes.

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Thanks! Problem solved. :grinning:

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