Enabling MQA External DAC results in unexpected icon on external DAC

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  • Seppi Evans
    Hi-Res

    Have read at this link, just to make sure nothing is amiss.

    https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006191908-Why-Isn-t-My-External-DAC-Playing-MQA-

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  • Gavin Wong

    Hi Seppi

    Thanks for the link.

    With help from a Gustard user, who experiences the same thing, it turns out that the SMSL website contradicts itself about which interfaces fully support MQA decoding and rendering. Only USB can.

    Since the SMSL’s coax can only perform rendering, MQA External DAC should in fact be disabled so that the NODE/BluOS will send only the decoded stream to my external SMSL DAC.

    The SMSL, over the coax, happily renders and lights up the MQA indicator.

    With MQA External DAC enabled (and coax), I guess my SMSL did what it could with the undecoded stream and lit up the generic CD icon.

    Hope this helps other users with their external DACs.

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  • Seppi Evans
    Hi-Res

    Ah … yes, I see on their website full decoding is only on the USB input.

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