Thanks Gianni. This sounds like the 1st stage of decoding that Ronnie described earlier. If Roon can do the 1st stage, is it a possibility that DSP SE speakers could do all of the rest? If so then (for these speakers) hardware decoding would be unnecessary.

It would need Roon to provide an option for users to tell it what lies downstream so that it could add appropriate metadata (or whatever it does) to set things up preemptively for rendering in the speakers.

Just wondering what is potentially possible. The agreement between MQA and Roon may disallow this of course.


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