Hi
I have Tidal the top tier one, into Roon, then into my pi with roopieee using an allo DigiOne coax out into a Topping E50. Roon shows it’s MQA but my Topping DAC is not showing the MQA light on the display. Any ideas?
Do you have any equalization or headphone filters enabled in Roon? That knocks the mqa display out for me.
not that i can see. I have it set to decoder for mqa
Does RoPieee pass MQA over SPDIF? Does the Topping E50 accept MQA on its SPDIF input (a lot of DACs only accept MQA on USB)?
It shouldn’t. Sounds like a settings issue. Make sure Roon is handling the core decoding and make sure the DAC is set to rendering in Roon. This will cause Roon to reapply the MQA signaling after it applies DSP. You will know it is working when you see ORFS in Roon’s signal path and on the DAC. This is assuming the input you are using on the DAC is capable of accepting MQA.
this is my roon feed. I’ve tried both coax and usb. I’ve heard Tidal might be dropping MQA but i’m hoping it’s just anything new and not the existing library.
All indications are FLAC is being added in addition to MQA, at least for now. Who know what will happen down the road.
Doesn’t look like Roon is set to do core decoding.
According to another poster above MQA capabilities should be render only since that is all your DAC does. Also, you need to scroll down for core decoder setting.
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I’ll try that Sunday, thanks for the help
I don’t get the same screens as you sadly. My laptop is my server and how I select tracks.
I think I’m going to send the DAC back as it’s doing my head in, if MQA is going from Tidal I may as well just get the akm based e70 Velvet and sack off Roon. Use a nuc with usb and Foobar for my ripped CDs and another streaming service. I’ve been a Roon user since the sooloos days so it’s a shame.
Actually I am using Topping DX5, not E50. I do get the ORFS signal when I apply the convolution filter for my headphones and OFS lights up on the DX5. When I turn off the convolution filter then MQA lights up on the DX5.
That is how it is supposed to work. ORFS just indicates that something else is doing the core decoding before the DAC. Your DAC apparently does decoding and rendering, so if you have the settings correct in Roon (core decoding on, decoding and rendering selected) Roon will handle the decoding only when needed which is what you are seeing in your signal path and on the DAC’s display. I’ve had four MQA DACs (all of them did decoding and rendering) and they all worked this way.