Is the HS=y in 861 destroying the MQA?

Infact, as upsampling happens internally, is 861 destroying MQA anyway.

I know that MQA is not being decoded, but how much of the extra MQA goodness is being diluted by 861 processing?

May be worth temporarily bypassibg 861 and going direct to speaker if yiu had another way of playing the source material.

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