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Originally Posted by rushca01

Can someone help me understand/wrap my head around something I don’t understand.

I just purchased a Schiit yggy which will be here sometime this week. I’m also looking at adding a Auralic G1. I’m having troubles understanding which unit is doing what tasks. I DO understand the yggy is doung the digital to analog conversion but what I don’t understand is what the G1 is doing. Is it decoding files internally before sending them to the DAC? I have read that the yggy does’t unfold MQA but I also read on the Auralic website where it says it’s software will unfold MQA??? So who’s doing what??

rushca01.......From Auralic's website: The ARIES G1 connects over Wi-Fi to digital sources like network attached storage, Internet streaming services like TIDAL and Qobuz, Internet Radio, and USB drives to bring high performance streaming to your home audio system.

With the Auralic G1 you will still need music file sources connected to you G1 by either an Ethernet cable from your router, or by WiFi connectivity to your router. You will also have the option of connecting a hard drive via USB to the G1 and/or a NAS (network attached strorage). Then your Auralic G1 will feed a digital signal via a high quality coaxial or AES/EBU cable to the Yggdrasil DAC.