Meridian MQA

[Devialetuser]

Did not mean to imply that Devialet has any control over Auralic. Just wanted to correlate why other companies might have a problem implementing MQA. Here is what Auralic has on their website

"AURALiC has done a live demo during CES 2016 for MQA on ARIES and ARIES MINI. It is however after MQA realized that ARIES does not have any DAC built-in and ARIES MINI has a digital output in parallel connection of its DAC I2S signal, they pulled it back immediately. They believe the MQA process is end to end and the DAC has to be optimized for MQA playback, so any digital output of fully decoded signal is unacceptable."

Personally I find DSD to be superior to 24/192 and the distinction becomes even more evident as you move to Double DSD. Businesses who think its a waste to go above 24/192 are heavily invested in PCM technology, and are doing a disservice to their customers. It is the same argument you hear about bit are bit or all good DAC sound the same.

Anyhow here is a good read on MQA, for those that are interested:

http://www.computeraudiophile.com/conten...-civilians

I can tolerate a couple hours of 24/192, but for a 4-5 hr listening session its vinyl or dsd. MQA at 24 bit / 352.8 kHz sounds just as pleasing to listen to as a DSD file in my opinion.