MQA through Toslink


Any DACs you know do this under the $400 mark?

Thanks!
leemaze
@lalitk 

The Node 2 will do the first unfold via digital out, but the full untold requires using the analog output. 

The Node 2 does have a digital optical input, though I’m not sure if it can unfold MQA content from the digital input or only through streaming sources.  
Lets pretend cost cost is no object. What DACs can decode MQA fed from data via toslink?
It looks like the Mytek Liberty DAC should do it, it has an optical input and says it has a hardware MQA decoder (and a light on the front that will light up when MQA is being decoded).

The manual doesn't explicitly state MQA decoding via optical, but it doesn't say it doesn't (like the Pro-ject DAC).
Why not go this way:
computer > network > Airport Ethernet port > Bluesound Node 2 as a streamer and DAC > rca output to amplifier 
A reclocker that also converts to coax or usb might improve the sound anyway in that setup. Maybe even more than mqa will.