That is great news Guy.
Roon is working with Meridian to get software MQA decoding into Roon but no timeline has been announced.
@Brian, are you able to say how processor intensive such decoding will be ? It may be helpful for people considering new hardware to know.
I can imagine that someone decoding MQA in Roon and then sending it to HQP on the same machine to upsample to DSD256 and apply real time room EQ with the convolution engine may want a Beowulf cluster.
People with MQA enabled hardware will be able to use it from the outset by sending a bit perfect stream from Roon.
I’m not sure how Tidal will implement MQA but it sounds from the article as if all current CD quality files will be converted to include MQA code. That certainly seems preferable to having to manually add new MQA versions to our Roon libraries. It would be interesting to know how MQA versions will be created. Are you able to shed any light on those topics @palbratelund ?