06-Apr-2018, 23:38
(06-Apr-2018, 22:53)birrr Wrote: Thanks for your opinion, everyone. I don't want this thread to turn into a debate on MQA... I think there are a plenty of other threads that discuss the MQA topic in depth. I personally don't care if I don't get the full MQA: I just want a better sound quality than what I can get from Airplay because I know my golds can handle much more than that. Having said that, I think I will go with Bluesound Node 2 and connect it directly to the dialog using optical. From what I've researched that offers the best bang for the buck.In my opinion the best bang for the buck you will get with a RPi3B+ and digi+ or a hifiberry digi+ board that can operate as a roon Roon RAAT device. Quite straight forward and with best SQ for up to 192k/24bit. Works 100% reliably for me. I feed my Phantoms through the optical input with the optical output of the digi+ board. My Roon core streams via wifi to the Rpi3B, not even the plus version without any dropouts for all file formats up to 24/192k.
My question is, if I did Laptop (Windows 10, probably Bluesound app and Tidal MQA) --(wifi)--> Bluesound Node 2 --(optical)--> dialog, and if I play a 24/192 track, what's the sound quality I will get? I couldn't find a crystal clear answer to this question. Note that I will not be using Roon since I understand the MQA support via Tidal - Roon - Bluesound is yet to come.