Originally Posted by Altus
Given that the Auralic Aries is a digital output only device this seems to imply that MQA will be output from the Aries in a decrpyted digital form playable on any high res DAC. I had understood that MQA would never be made available in this form.
I don't remember the specifics, but I agree that it seems a bit unexpected, if not unwelcome.

Originally Posted by Altus
The interface with Roon is also very interesting - I'm not sure I understand how this will work with MQA.
That bit's simple. Any music player which is bit-perfect will pass MQA to a decoder quite happily.

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