Whether or not you consider the software method Auralic uses as "true MQA" decoding is up to you but as original members of the MQA consortium that had a software method in place as far back as 2016 I think they do know what they are doing. I have played MQA files from the Auralic Aries into a non-MQA dac and then the same file from the Bridge II in the Directstream Sr. and the result was that the end product was the same. The Bridge II/Directstream combo is fully certified but the DAC alone is not so everything is being done in the Bridge II streaming card. For example a 24/192 MQA file played back 24/192 with both systems. My opinion for what it's worth and I do appreciate Peter's based on his position.
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Jack
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