The first unfold of MQA gives say 95% of the MQA effect (my opinion, others may disagree).

It would be an interesting exercise to run Roon on an 8Pack machine - I wonder if they could handle 2 x DSD upsampling? Love to run that test.

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Streaming: Roon, NUC, QNAP869 NAS
2ch system: dCS Vivaldi, Audionet Stern, Audionet Heisenberg, Magico Q1
Retro system: 101/104/105, Red Rose Spirit