Streamer MQA Question

What I'm looking to do is build a hires system a piece at a time due to $$$ constraints. Starting with the Bricasti M5 with the Audioquest Dragonfly Red (which I already have on hand) plugged into the M3's USB-A Output. The AQDR would then be plugged into Genelec 8030Cs using a Mogami 3.5mm to 2-XLR Male cable.

I would trigger playback from Audirvana which would do the "1st unfold". 

Sounds feasible?

Down the line I would replace the AQ with another better DAC (hopefully under 2K).

I meant the M5's  USB-A Output.

I settled on doing the innuos pulse mini (should be here in a week or so) with output over usb to an r2r dac for some types of music, and a toslink (24/192) to a delta sigma dac for other types of music (loud rock, aka AC/DC). Both dacs do full mqa unfold..  More instrumental through r2r..

I can feed the pulse mini from qobuz/tidal/NAS..

I didn’t go with Aurender simply due to my laziness where I would have to move the usb between dacs..

Sounds doable, yes.

nevada_matt,

May I ask which dacs you’re using?