Originally Posted by VirusKiller
It's a brand new 818v3 laugh so I have no v2 reference. All sources, from RBCD through MQA can sound tremendous into my Stax. I say *can* because there is little that can be done with poor recordings (including some "HiRes" which clearly isn't).
At this level, the reproduction of poor or old recordings allows many more of the acoustic queues (and one might also say, "music") to come through. It's been a revelation listening to good 78-to-CD remasterings through my current system.

Originally Posted by VirusKiller
Into my 6ks, I have a problem, because although I can easily hear the essence of MQA coming through them, I really need room correction in my small basement theatre. So I will probably feed the 818 into my 861v4; I suspect that little will be lost if all the 6ks are getting is 2x decoded MQA, but even if the 6ks are getting more than 2x, the bass bloom and room modes are detracting from my listening experience.
So you mean:

818 decoding to 24/96 (etc)
24/96 passing by MHR to 861v4
MRC processing from 861v4
24/96 passed by MHR to 6ks

You'd be adding jitter, but maybe in this case MRC will be really more important.

I hope it works! Is there anyone else out there with this configuration of devices who can try as well?

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