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:
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:
Notice that it is only doing the first decode and NOT the upsampling. That is because telling Roon “Renderer Only” means you have to preserve the MQA Signaling, even if in this case you cannot use it.
In fact, now that I’ve taken the time to write it out, I think I"m going to discuss it in its own thread.