Aurender and MQA
I’m looking forward to this Aurender update and will likely not be able to resist the $50 investment .....
From my understanding, for those using a non-MQA DAC, core decoding will yield the following resolutions:
If original MQA file is 192, you get 96 with core decoding
If original MQA file is 96, you get 88.2 with core decoding
If original MQA file is 88.2, 48, or 44.1; then you get 88.2, 48, or 44.1. Same resolution as the original file
I also believe that in addition to higher resolution files, the core decoding entails some processing of the MQA file or de-blurring or whatever it is that MQA does but of course you don’t get all the processing/information without a MQA dac.
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Last edited by j3brow; 01-21-2018 at 11:45 PM.
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