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tschitschi

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MQA Decoding?
« on: May 21, 2021, 05:22:47 pm »
Hi!
What about MQA-decoding? Is it planned?
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JimH

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Re: MQA Decoding?
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2021, 05:26:19 pm »
No.
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Re: MQA Decoding?
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2021, 08:50:36 am »
Quote from: JimH on May 21, 2021, 05:26:19 pm
No.

Glad you are sticking to this. I have always felt that MQA's sole purpose was marketing BS.
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Re: MQA Decoding?
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2021, 08:58:04 am »
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Re: MQA Decoding?
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2021, 09:15:52 am »
You can still passthrough MQA through Media Center, allowing your DAC to decode it by using no DSP and you need to be using 100% volume (both internal and system volume).

That's probably as good as it's ever going to get in regards to MQA.
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Re: MQA Decoding?
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2021, 10:02:28 am »
You can also use Tidal and have it do the first level decoding and then pass that through MC using WDM. Or, as the Donkey says, pass the original through WDM and let the DAC do the decoding.
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Re: MQA Decoding?
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2021, 10:06:25 am »
Quote from: Screwdriver on May 22, 2021, 08:50:36 am
Glad you are sticking to this. I have always felt that MQA's sole purpose was marketing BS.

But you have to admit, it's some good BS.
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Re: MQA Decoding?
« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2021, 12:20:58 pm »
Quote from: Wheaten on May 22, 2021, 10:06:25 am
But you have to admit, it's some good BS.

Yeah, it is well crafted. ;D

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Re: MQA Decoding?
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2021, 04:59:12 am »
Quote from: dtc on May 22, 2021, 10:02:28 am
You can also use Tidal and have it do the first level decoding and then pass that through MC using WDM. Or, as the Donkey says, pass the original through WDM and let the DAC do the decoding.
Since I can not use JRiver's DSP on MQA, why in the whole world should I then take the detour via JRiver to stream from Tidal?
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Re: MQA Decoding?
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2021, 07:52:47 am »
Quote from: Magellan on June 04, 2021, 04:59:12 am
Since I can not use JRiver's DSP on MQA, why in the whole world should I then take the detour via JRiver to stream from Tidal?

If you do not have a MQA capable DAC that you want to do the decoding, then you can use JRiver's DSPs.

If you want to pass the MQA signal to a MQA DAC for decoding you are correct that you cannot use the DSPs. However, by using WDM you do not have to worry about which software has exclusive access to the device.  If MC has exclusive access, Tidal will not be able to play directly to the device and vice versa.  WDM just simplifies that part of playback. If that is not an issue for you, WDM gains you nothing.
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Re: MQA Decoding?
« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2021, 02:04:10 pm »
More info on MQA. Primarily developed for streaming services and support is building. My new IFI DAC (Burr-Brown no upsampling) supports MQA and is not the reason I purchased it. Personally, I encode in FLAC or AIFF files.

https://youtu.be/VvIGzGWSK48
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Re: MQA Decoding?
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2021, 03:49:17 pm »
Quote from: RGBlues on November 23, 2021, 02:04:10 pm
More info on MQA. Primarily developed for streaming services and support is building.
I don't think so.  We won't ever support it.
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Re: MQA Decoding?
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2023, 03:51:35 am »
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Re: MQA Decoding?
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2023, 08:26:37 am »
dtc,
I split your post and added it to the original thread I just linked above.
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