He's clearly not up to date with recent events.

His terminology is confusing the hell out his readers too. There's so much scope for misunderstanding with words like encoded/ decoded/ non-MQA etc etc. and that's before we get into encryption/ decryption and the different levels of MQA ("white glove" being the top level, according to Bob).

We ought to adopt a common standard on this forum.

Streaming: Roon, NUC, QNAP869 NAS
2ch system: dCS Vivaldi, Audionet Stern, Audionet Heisenberg, Magico Q1
Retro system: 101/104/105, Red Rose Spirit