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I really enjoy the MQA I've experienced from Tidal, have over 100 albums in my "favorites"...so, I ordered a Mytek Brooklyn MQA DAC.
I suspect with the addition of Universal Music to the MQA source lineup that the DAC manufacturers will need to come out with models that do "end-to-end" MQA decoding, to be successful.
I also suspect that DAC chip companies like ESS will likely build the MQA decoding into future offerings, so that DAC manufacturers which use off-the-shelf DAC chipsets will have good options for their future models, and that their designs won't need to go thru the MQA Company certification process.
Paul & Ted are very astute and very smart people. I also suspect that they will eventually adapt their designs to do end-to-end MQA decoding, so I'll be keeping my DirectStream DAC, as I find it sounds awesome decoding "regular" AIFF & FLAC files and hope, if they join the MQA decoding world, that it'll be in the form of a motherboard swap for this excellent DAC.
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McIntosh C2500 pre amp, MC452 power amp, Autonomic MMS-5A server, PS Audio P15 power plant, DirectStream DAC, DirectStream CD transport, Focal Sopra No2 speakers, JL Audio F113V2 sub woofers (2), Sennheiser HD800 headphones, Dell laptop iTunes/Tidal/Roon, Wireworld cabling
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