Nucleus down samples 192k MQA to 96k to Naim MuSo 2 end point

[joel]

@Iain_Buchan

If I have a 192k MQA Tidal stream

You don’t; you have a 48k 24-bit MQA stream which was encoded from a 192k master. Roon can decode it to “MQA Core” which is 2x the rate streamed from TIDAL. MQA renderers --which the MuSo is not-- can do further decoding and/or up-sampling.

The correct settings for your MuSo in Roon are:

• Enable MQA core decoder = yes
• MQA capabilities = No MQA support

With these settings, if you so wish, you may up-sample further using Roon’s DSP engine, but this up-sampling has nothing to do with MQA (and would in fact break the MQA stream for rendering endpoints).

Let me link to this again:

MQA 44.1kHz and signal path?

There are four different rates here, which causes no end of confusion: The MQA container rate (i.e. 44.1k or 48k) which is how the MQA gets to you. It has nothing to do with anything else and has no bearing on rendering rates. The transport rate of decoded MQA (“MQA Core”) from the MQA decoder to the rendering part of a DAC. This can be from Roon (or any other MQA decoder) to the DAC, or within the DAC itself. MQA Core is always 2x rate (88.2k or 96k) and has no bearing on rendering rates. T…