ROON Ready network player DAC with MQA, 32 bit 768kHz and DSD 512 native around 8k. A wired network will be preferable

[wklie (Peter Lie)]

If you decide to use a non-MQA DAC, set it to No MQA Support. You can still upsample further if you want to. For details see this:

Settings on Roon for MQA DACs

Not true. Setting a non-MQA DAC to “Renderer Only” prevents you from using Roon’s up-sampling with MQA material. Example, I want to upsample all my music to 384. If I set my non-MQA DAC to “No MQA Support” then I get the following signal path: [no mqa setting] Notice, Roon is doing the first decode and then, it is upsampling to the target Sample Rate: 384. If, I then do nothing else but switch the MQA capabilities to Renderer Only, you get this: [renderer set] Notice that it is only do…