The PS Audio DirectStream Junior is a Roon ready device. Using its Network Bridge II, if I turn off the Roon DSP engine, the Tidal MQA signal is passed on to the DSJ like normal and plays well.
I much prefer to use the Roon DSP engine. When I play Tidal MQA over The Bridge (ethernet) post the 1.5 update, the DSJ shows that its receiving the MQA signal, but there are a number of issues.
Either no sound comes out, or its garbled, or it plays for 20 seconds and then no sound comes out.
In the Roon Settings, MQA Renderer & Decoder is activated.
Iâve tried the Roon DSP engine with and without DSD upsampling. Same issues.
Youâll get something the DSJ can play for sure, I believe it will be a wav, as the unit itself canât decode MQA.
I would suffer no stress over thisâŚTed has said the MQA folks looked over or received a detailed flow of what heâs doing in the FPGA and they had no issues with it. I read this to mean they were freaking impressed and said âyeah MQA adds nothing to the mix here. Nice job.â