Mqa Operation; Mqa Playback And Notification - Cary Audio Design DMS-800 Owner's Manual

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OPERATION

The DMS-800PV is full MQA decoder that uses advanced 16x MQA rendering. This means the MQA file's original sample

rate will further render to 705.6 kHz or 768 kHz while also including propriety DAC optimization and tuning for the AKM

DACs during MQA playback.

In the "MQA Decoder" menu settings, there are three (3) choices of MQA decoders to select from, Full Decoder, Core

Decoder, and Authenticating Decoder. Each decoder handles the MQA decoding and MQA SPDIF pass-through differently.

NOTE: Using Core or Authenticating Decoder is for when needing to pass an MQA signal out the DMS SPDIF digital outputs.

Otherwise, it is always suggested to use the Full Decoder (Default) setting.

MQA Blue

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

MQA Green

indicates a file that has been MQA encoded

without provenance.

MQA Magenta

indicates an MQA Core stream. This means the files first unfold were decoded by

external software (only up to 88.2 kHz or 96 kHz), such as by Roon or Audirvana. Core decoding can typically be turned off

or bypassed in the third-party software program to allow for the full MQA stream and all decoding to be handled by the

DMS-800PV.

Ethernet, Wi-Fi, USB-A, and SD Card inputs are all MQA capable. SPDIF inputs of the DMS-800PV is not capable of MQA

playback. However, the DMS-800PV can play an MQA stream from the SPDIF inputs at better than CD quality standard

FLAC.

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