Originally Posted by Rolski
But wouldn't that mean you potentially either "destroy" the hidden part of the MQA file as it passes through DSP (processing), or you lose all the benefits of DSP - with which I specifically mean Room Correction - and therefore get "uncorrected" music out of the DSP speakers ?
Meridian systems have a distributed architecture so what this potential means is that the 861v9 may [decode the MQA stream, apply room correction (and other DSP actions) to the decoded stream.

Then encode streams to MLP and then output to the DSPs / send to the internal DACs.

As for MQA DAC correction profiles, SpeakerLink is source/destination aware, which should enable the correct Meridian DAC profiles to be used.

I see Meridian which a very close working relationship with MQA limited, being in a very good position to be able to engineer this.

Regards,
Carl


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