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Interesting limitation if you have Roon an MQA capable Meridian endpoint and SE speakers.

With a little lighting and “resolution” on that photo, you could maybe discern just who is Flaccing off🕵🏻I may have committed a double entendre twice. Congratulations.🍾

Yep, Meridian's SE speakers require a MHR stream and "MQA Instructions" via SpeakerLink before they will render. I believe this is down to Meridian being an early adopter of MQA technology, since then MQA limited have relaxed some of the requirements ... which leaves M somewhat behind the curve.

Roon have discussed this with Meridian and MQA hopefully a Meridian firmware update will resolve and improve interoperability.
I just hope we don't have to wait too long for it.

Regards,
Carl

No I hope you don’t. Do you have MQA excluding the render on your 861?

Nope, I think it will come one day for DIRECT mode... but I'll not hold my breath.

Actually, given what Roon has been allowed to do with DSP (apply DSP and output a renderable stream), I think it's far more likely that the 861 will (one day - not holding breath) get multi-channel MQA.

That would be very cool and welcome.

Regards,
Carl