I have a feeling that 'M'othership is letting Sooloos die a slow and painful death.

They are pushing Roon or core/store on QNAP. The problem is core/store is broken since May and only works if you downgrade the QNAP operating software. If it ever gets fixed, it might break in the next release.

There are quite a number of very good alternatives in the market - Aurender, Auralic, Lumin etc etc - for all budgets and tastes. They all do better than 24/96, including DXD and DSD. Most of them are easy to migrate to - export native from Sooloos, drag to their disks or to a NAS (any NAS - not QNAP only).

Not all do MQA but it is not yet universally adapted anyway. It might be brilliant technically, but, if there is no software, it is useless (see M's DVD-A experiment).

I was so hoping for a new C20 (or C30 or whatever).

Good luck in your search - happy listening.

Main : C15, MD600, Aurender N10, EMM DAC2X, Boulder 865, Oppo BDP-95, JM Labs Maestro Utopia
Office : PC, Resonessence Invicta, HD800