It has been confirmed elsewhere on the forum that all the current Meridian MQA capable products were shipped with a 0.9 firmware version. They need to be 1.0 which is due soon. MQA is packaged up in a 24/48 box and will play as 16/44 without a decoder. Xanavi in another thread, is claiming an improvement over 24/96 that is possibly due to the de-blurring that happens to the master, which benefits standard resolution as Bob has talked about.

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