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In Reply to: RE: MQA or not to MQA... posted by AbeCollins on January 26, 2016 at 18:58:22
Good post Abe. I totally agree. My current digital playback is stunning and I doubt there will be a "Jaw Dropping" effect with MQA. If Tidal will stream MQA and provide a built in decoder for playback I would try it but I would not buy a new dac.
Alan
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"We have a player modify to support 192K, feed to Master 7 is no issue.
We applied the 25M optical receiver, but I can't warranty working well with your devices. All mac notebook in China have not optical.
Kingwa"
Looks like only other limit is the TOSLINK transmitter and the cable. Can say that using the TOSLINK cable above from a Mac Mini to the Master ll via TOSLINK cable above the only difference is that the 'click' or 'stutter' at the start of a new playback queue common on the Master 11 (Audio-GD does not mute when no input) is more of a 'click' than 'stutter' with TOSLINK. Only used TOSLINK up to 24/98 so far and it sounds every bit as good to my ears as USB w/Regen on it's stock switching supply.
buy another USB > S/PDIF XMOS box IF it included the decoding hardware for MQA as well, I'm guessing. ;-)
I might too.
Not even sure where all of this MQA decoding takes place? Before the DAC? Is it part of the DSP?
If there's a cheap entry point into MQA for 'playing around' I might consider it too. But not if I have to dump my current DAC.
DAC-rolling AbeCollins not willing to dump his current DAC?
You're good for a new DAC every six months! ;-)
I, on the other hand, plan on keeping my Audio-GD multi-bit 'ladder' DAC for some time so MQA will have to be software if at all.
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