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I do not understand the "big" problem here with MQA and signal processing.
MQA is just different data as "before", they are stored in different way as a regular CD get stored (in the 861). It's still music, just the 861 has to unpack/decode it, make all processing and then repack/encode it again.

So MAYBE more processing power is needed, but the absolute time for processing
is not very important as it doesnt matter when the processing take longer and the latency (time difference between in - and output) has increased.

That is only important for video and if it's really necessary to delay the video (what I don't think), it's not a big deal as that technique is already used.

So the same processing time can take longer, no need here for processing power.

So I see no reason why we need new HW.