As I mentioned in another thread, Roon just does the first of two MQA "unfolds". You need a MQA DAC for the second "unfold".
Understanding MQA/tidal/ DA conversion
Hi - I have both an oppo 205 and 203, and considering selling one to help fund a Levinson integrated. The new 5802 and 5805 day they can handle MQA and apparently high rates of digital conversion. I find all the dsd/dxd/pcm DoP lingo a bit confusing so the cut through question is can the oppos, when used for streaming tidal, output the highest quality signal from Tidal Masters and can the Levinsons convert that signal to its maximum potential? If yes I think using either of those as a transport would have seemingly equal outcomes of just pushing the digital signal out.
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I believe Qobuz now also offers a family plan that is worth looking into. @erik_squires makes a valid point about the content difference, but it’s free to try Qobuz so why not? That said, MQA must die!!! |
After a lot of listening to modern DAC behavior, I've settled on 96 kHz/24 bit being good enough for my ears. In particular, modern DAC's are just a lot better with lower rez music like Redbook (44.1kHz/16) and the only improvement I can hear with high resolution files is completely explained by the slope of the anti-aliasing filters at each higher resolution. There may be some who still hold out for 384kHz/24 bit music, but for me I've not heard anything best 96/24 in a long time. |
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