Of course, that’s correct. Sorry for using a misleading description. I was just referring to the “enhanced” signal path when playing a MQA file which results in the “blue light” in Roon. And coincidentally the Explorer² also has a blue light when playing back MQA 
As I tried to explain earlier, using Roon’s Core decoder and the Explorer² as renderer does not work. I tried this multiple times but it doesn’t work due to a firmware limitation of the Explorer². I even found a forum post about this issue (https://community.roonlabs.com/t/meridian-explorer-2-mqa-renderer-only/62597/5?u=luca_quaer).