What would have really helped is if the Explorer2 user guide included the words 'ensure your music player is set to maximum output otherwise MQA decoding cannot happen' and not just assume that is what people will do.
But that would be a generalisation as it's not true for all music players ... The volume control, for example, in Roon can be used as it controls the volume by informing the analogue section in the Explorer how much gain to apply ... thus maintaining bit perfect output to the DAC... as opposed to employing digital attenuation which by definition can never be bit perfect.
I've not used Foobar or JRiver do their user guides describe how their respected volume controls work?
I suspect there may be many people that will get a 'shock' to find their music players are not outputting bit perfect digital audio. Quite a steep learning curve awaits.
Regards,
Carl
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