MQA signal path help

[Jacob]

I have a Dragonfly Red DAC. It is an MQA renderer.

In my signal path, Roon does the MQA decoding, but I do not see that the DF Red is doing the rendering.

Is my DF Red doing any rendering? Am I actually listening to MQA?

Thank you!

[RBM (René)]

For Roon to show the rendering phase, install libusb-1.0 on the box it’s plugged into (sudo apt install libusb-1.0). I just tried my Pi:

[Jacob]

Thanks Rene!

I entered… sudo apt install libusb-1.0

But I still don’t get rendering…

[tahsu]

I also tried the same thing as I was interested. It loaded ok, but didnt work. Mine was on the USBridge and I used putty to do it.

In theory my DAC (Mytek Liberty) should do decoding and rendering and thats how I have it set up in Roon. The DAC seems to recognise MQA though.

[Jacob]

B.t.w. what color is the light on your DF Red when you play MQA? Mine is magenta. Is that correct?

[Robosledger]

I had the same question. I have an iFi Nano iDSD BL connected to an Allo USBridge. Your solution worked for me. Thanks so much Rene!

Before

After installing libusb-1.0, and restarting the USBridge