Mqa Operation; Mqa Playback Notification - Cary Audio Design DMS-600 Owner's Manual

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MQA OPERATION

'MQA' (Green Dot), 'MQA Studio' (Blue dot), 'MQA Core' (Magenta dot) indicates that the unit is

decoding and playing an MQA file.

MQA Studio

indicates the file has either been approved in the studio by the artist/producer or has

been verified by the copyright owner as provenance to what was heard in the studio.

MQA Green

indicates a file that has been MQA encoded without provenance.

MQA Magenta

indicates the MQA file's first unfold was decoded by software (only up to 88.2 kHz or

96 kHz), such as Roon or Audirvana, and the rest decoded by the full hardware decoder within the

DMS-500/550/600. Core decoding can be turned off in the third-party software program to allow all

decoding to be done by the DMS-500/550/600.

Ethernet, Wi-Fi, USB-A, and SD Card inputs are all capable of MQA playback. SPDIF inputs of the

DMS-500/550/600 are not capable of MQA playback. Additionally, when playing MQA files the

optical and coaxial outputs will NOT pass through any signal.

The DMS-500/550/600 are the first product to earn MQA certification using

MQA's 16x rendering. This means the MQA files will play at a fixed sample

rate of 705.6 kHz or 768 kHz. Upon Playback of an MQA encoded file,

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