wklie
May 8, 2018, 1:42am
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The default settings should generally be used.
MQA Core Decoder should always be enabled, unless you know what you are doing.
The MQA Capabilities should generally be set corresponding to the DAC hardware you have.
Copying @andybob summary - this is what happens when no DSP is performed:
Also read:
Roon + MQA FAQ is here.
Yes. You don’t have to worry about the details unless you are trying to get a really specific outcome that is not in the category of “the way most people would want it to work”. A lot of effort/thought has gone into taking MQA (a very complex product/idea) and removing the need to understand it top to bottom in order to just listen to music.
Give it a little bit of time. That data is updated in the background. And make sure that all of your devices (cores + remotes) a…
Imagine I don’t use DSP and tell you the hardware does MQA, you will not do MQA unfolding but leave it to the hardware. Correct?
Yup
And then if I switch on DSP, do you automatically take over MQA processing?
Indeed
Or is this all controlled by the core MQA setting?
That setting is basically just a big “off” switch for people who don’t like MQA. That’s why it’s buried in advanced. When it’s “on” Roon is making the best choices automatically based on:
The details of the media file
Th…
Try this–think about it in terms of goals, instead of use cases.
In general, Roon’s goal is to make sure that MQA files are decoded whenever possible.
If Roon thinks your DAC can decode, then it’s going to skip software decoder whenever practical, but engage it if you have configured DSP in Roon (this is because DSP must happen post-decode–this is just how MQA+DSP work together).
If Roon thinks your DAC has rendering capabilities, then it will:
Ensure that the software decoder produces rend…
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