MQA, grouped zones, and bit-perfect playback

[philr]

hen I play an MQA recording, with all DSP filters bypassed (and no headroom management or sample rate conversion), Roon displays the signal path as “enhanced”, not “lossless”.

There are a number of threads discussing this, for example.

Lumin MQA Settings

That is correct, and it is Roon Labs’ decision. Last time I asked, Roon Labs consider the MQA rendering (second stage of the MQA decoding) to be Enhanced.