I have not taken the time to see about any SQ differences yet.

I have been trying to see about MQA from devices via SPDIF. So far the 218 connected via SPDIF to the 8000SE streaming MQA files indicates MQA on the speaker display. This is something you could not do before the firmware upgrade.

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