Originally Posted by ncpl
Unless decode is done in the core.
It wouldn't be done in the core unless the core is also an endpoint. Each endpoint receives the file off the hard drive and performs the magic that results in music. With MQA, part of that magic would have to be the ability to decode a file encoded with it.

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