Originally Posted by Ludwig
It was explained quite a lot in the early announcements, that you need an 818 or other qualified item to decode/confirm the data. So I don't think USB/SPDIF converter into SE speaker has a hope in hell of working.

Sorry!
I was assuming that Tidal/Roon would provide the decode/confirm.

Originally Posted by Altus
Agreed. The DSPs are not going to do the decoding and will need an MHR stream to work with MQA.
But surely the DSPs (since they contain a DAC) must do the rendering? And surely we are not suggesting that they could only handle MQA material from an MHR-capable source, that would seem like quite a limitation, especially given the (current) very limited availability of such sources.

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