23-Feb-2016, 19:59
(22-Feb-2016, 18:41)Murforce Wrote: How do we lobby with Devialet to license MQA and add it to their internal DAC so we can at least begin to play with this?
I am not sure that Devialet necessarily needs to modify the DAC to decode the MQA files. The MQA website says the decoding can occur in "hardware, software player or app." Here's the link.
Okay, so hardware could be the DAC in the Devialet.
As to software player, I know, for example, that Bluesound will have decoding but they have already said it won't be in their DAC, which is great news for me because I bypass their DAC, using the DAC in the Devialet. So, at least for me, I will have end-to-end MQA with Tidal (MQA files) streaming to my Bluesound Node 2 (with MQA decoding) feeding the Devialet DAC. Now, could Devialet implement the MQA decoding somewhere in their software outside of the DAC? Don't know...
Finally, MQA indicates that an "app" can decode MQA. Not sure what they mean by that or how it would happen.
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