MQA Labs’ DSP technology branded QRONO is ready for manufacturers to integrate in to their products. Looks like the Node ICON will be the first DAC to use this technology.
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Reinventing the wheel over and over is not exactly innovative.
(This probably shouldn’t be under MQA topic.)
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I might be wrong, but from what I read, it seems they are just reinventing DSD-to-PCM conversion and D/A process (probably with special filters) this time around, without lossless compression schemes or authentication.
In the press release. What does this even mean?
DSD conversion is handled with the lightest possible touch
It means not heavy-handed …
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hmm DSD to PCM processing… I think Roon does already a pretty good job there. and there is also HQplayer for the more enthusiastic user.
Well let’s see how their filter will turn out.
But NAD and blue sound have a bit of a problem with promising stuff that turns out to be buggy and bug fixes that usually never arrive.
Doesn’t bode well for BluOS supporting Native DSD on these units looks like it will be converting it to PCM.
DSD conversion takes quite a bit of computing power to do well, so I’d translate it as them using the minimum effort possible to allow for the possibility of embedding whatever method they use in as many devices as possible.
Given most DSD out there (on SACDs) was converted from PCM to begin with, the idea doing yet another conversion is pretty ridiculous.