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