This is exactly the same behaviour I have with my 210 streamer feeding my 218 preamp. The way I see it is, the 210 sees the file and confirms it is an MQA Studio file via Tidal/Roon, then the 218 is confirming the file is MQA, the Studio flag is perhaps not seen or required. Is my understanding correct?


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