Aurender & MQA

[CDLehner]

So...I downloaded some supposedly, MQA-encoded test files; from the 2L Test Bench.

Not making the MQA indicator, light-up on my Mytek Brooklyn.

Thoughts?

[Kuoppis]

Are there maybe other test files e.g. on the Meridian site, just to double check?


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[CDLehner]

Not that I can find; and I've looked.

So if anyone has any links.

[CDLehner]

If your MQA indication does not light up, check that every component (music server software, transport, etc.) before the MQA DAC is NOT doing anything that destroys the bit-perfect nature: digital volume, format conversion (*), resampling, DSP processing, etc. And verify that your DAC is indeed running the MQA-certified version of firmware.

* note: MQA should survive lossless conversion from one format to another.

Yeah; I wouldn't think...the Aurender would do so?

As for the Brooklyn; I'm at v2.05...and even though there's a 2.07, it's showing MQA-compatible since v2.0

https://mytekdigital.com/support_doc...are_readme.txt

[CDLehner]

So...anyone; have an Aurender, and an MQA-compatible DAC??

[CDLehner]

I can't be positive, mind you; but I think setting my Brooklyn...to MQA decoder 'disabled'. Might have had something to do with it.

Hey...in my defense: when I first set it up, I thought "I'm not using this processing; let's defeat it, from being in the signal chain".

So...my heart was in the right place; just not me head