Originally Posted by 3dit0r
Does anyone know if Meridian updated the Explorer 2 to allow MQA render after using Roon DSP (like 818v3, etc.)? I do like a little EQ on headphones, but also like MQA...

I have both Explorers and a Prime and cannot recall seeing any announcement of firmware update for any of them since the render only updates came through for other kit. This was following announcements/observations here but at the time, I did check on Meridian site and specifically ask and nothing came to light. Now, I could have missed an announcement or observation, or Meridian snuck something through without anyone noticing, but I suspect the answer is that the Meridian headphone DACs missed out on render only.

I will try and check for sure later though.

[edit]Latest Prime firmware bin file on firmware download zip is June 2016. Nothing yet spotted for any Explorer on website.

I'll still try a test with both Explorer² and Prime in render only mode