If You Use Tidal

If the Roon Signal path is showing that the stream is MQA, then it’s MQA. This has nothing to do with Roon integration, because Roon does not choose the stream; it only plays back what TIDAL provides; and TIDAL is still serving up MQA.

Note: although TIDAL has removed MQA indicators and decoding from its own apps, as I understand it, if you were to playback the same track (using a bit-perfect configuration) through an MQA DAC, you would similarly get an MQA stream and decode.

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