Roon tips on volume levelling turns off the MQA signal

[BlackJack]

A users settings in Roon have to match the devices capabilities to get the desired results.

Nowhere does it read that the device is capable of acting as a renderer only and Meridian is known for that incapability for quite some time already.

DSP with MQA and Meridian

No. Once the folded MQA stream is altered, it is no longer decodable. Correct. I would lobby Meridian to get this fixed, which is what I have done (on a personal level). We need firmware for all of Meridian’s products (818v3, 808v6, 218, Explorer², Prime?) which fixes rendering of previously decoded MQA (with intact signalling information, as Roon provides, and other rendering devices are capable of using).

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UPDATE: I spoke to soon, seems like Meridian pushed out a set of new Firmware at some point. So rendering only should work but because they can’t authenticate the stream they don’t display MQA: