Question to Devialet regarding Roon and MQA

[Hifi_swlon]

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned here but Chris Connaker had a section on MQA in his CES article. I just read it.

The post is here.

Here's a couple of his quotes pertinent to the above:

When MQA launched, we were told publicly that MQA would only be decoded in hardware (unless played on a mobile device). This meant that people would be required to purchase new MQA enabled DACs to get the full benefit of the technology. The announcement of software decoding means that people only need an app that decodes MQA rather than hardware

I asked a very high end DAC manufacturer what it saw as the differences between hardware decoding in its DACs and software decoding in an app like Roon (before outputting to its DACs). The answer was a refreshing, "there should be no difference"