MC MQA Is most unlikely to ever be on silver disc (see comments recently on HH about he lack of BD-A discs).

Therefore you would have to assume it would be streamed or downloaded.

M had zero interest in supporting 5.1 (or 7.1) in the Sooloos/streaming architecture despite being the most requested missing feature. "Not enough content" was the reason as I recall.

I cannot imagine that they would re-engineer the Sooloos streaming protocol AND hardware now to support MC MQA when the Sooloos population is in decline and even 2.0 MQA remains elusive.

IMHO the best bet would be for M to adopt Roon's RAAT protocol (which is a more up-to-date and robust protocol) for streaming end-points (note: not called Sooloos end points in the price list). This opens the door for MC which is stated as on the roadmap for Roon. The 'only' piece M would then need to do is finally build the ID5.1 card for 861v9; leaving Sooloos alone as the once fantastic 2.0 option that it was.


Rgds,
Nick