Show us your signal path

Jim_F · February 11, 2020, 6:02am

RTaylor3rd · February 11, 2020, 6:08am

Morten_Valbjorn · February 11, 2020, 6:14am

From NUC > Project Pre S2 DAC via usb
First is MQA…
Next is everything else upscaled to DSD512
Next is DSD 64-256 upscaled to 512
Last is DSD played natively

Lastly…I believe in… don’t use EQ or other to interfere with the sound

Henry_McLeod · February 11, 2020, 8:06am

Is that working as it should? Is the prime recognising the MQA stream and rendering it correctly?

Jim_F · February 11, 2020, 3:44pm

Jim_F · February 11, 2020, 4:36pm

I think so. Since the Meridian Prime is an MQA decoder and renderer, I have software decoding turned off in Roon and the Meridian setup to do both.

Henry_McLeod · February 11, 2020, 5:54pm

I would expect the device to tell Roon what it’s doing in the MQA realm. I see DSP being applied but no message telling you MQA signalling has been preserved. That means the DSP you are applying is making that signal not bit perfect. I have just carried out a little experiment and it seems to confirm what I am thinking.

Jim_F · February 11, 2020, 6:19pm

Thanks for that. The DSP crossfeed wasn’t supposed to be on. The Meridian Prime has that function on the analog side.

Henry_McLeod · February 11, 2020, 6:57pm

Cool. That’s what I would expect to see in Roon. But I have noted it a couple of examples posted here where Roon isn’t reporting any MQA processing at the endpoint.

stevev1 · February 11, 2020, 7:24pm

alex_wood · February 15, 2020, 2:47pm

Sanjeev_Mulay · February 15, 2020, 3:59pm

Here’s mine: Roon Core running on a Synology NAS, streaming to Naim Uniti Nova which then drives a pair of Klipsch Forte III’s.

Matthias_Kemena · February 15, 2020, 4:56pm

eclectic · February 16, 2020, 7:07am

Jens_Kjellerup · February 16, 2020, 4:00pm

Here is mine.
Roon core running under Ubuntu 18.04 headless in a KVM VM on my homemade NAS running OpenMediaVault.
Playing via a RPi and a HIFIBerry Digi+ through a BNC cable to my Benchmark DAC1