Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Streaming Hardware with Roon Application Roon 1.5 is here, c/w MQA software decoding

Robert.

Rendering only takes place within an MQA DAC. Your 8k.2s don't have MQA DACs, so rendering is not relevant. Your 218 does have an MQA DAC, but unless you are using its analogue output, again, rendering is not relevant.

What matters is that Roon can perform the first unfold from 1x sample rate "MQA" to 2x sample rate "MQA Core", apply any DSP you like, and send the 2x rate stream to your ID40 or your 218 (or another other Meridian Sooloos endpoint).

With the 218 you can choose to pass-through the 1x MQA stream and let the 218 decode, but it will only output a 2x rate stream to your 861 and/or speakers.