Hi,

There are no sensitive D/A parts associated with a Meridian core. The core is the "broker" software that glues the Sooloos distribute architecture together.

The core decodes the FLAC files and then sends the raw PCM via (asynchronous) network packets to the Sooloos End Point.

Providing the decoding is bit perfect (which it is), there should be no effect on audio quality.

Regards,
Carl

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