Berkeley Audio Design Adds MQA Rendering To Alpha DAC Reference Series 2

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12 hours ago, DMelby said:

I have just installed the MQA upgrade today, easy process overall with no problems.  All I can say is wow, on CD rips/PCM the improvement is substantial and wonderful.  Agree with stevebythebay, the upgrade is well worth it.  Strangely, streaming tidal MQA from my N10 isn't working though as my dac is not displaying MQA or unfolding to higher than 48.

 

I believe that would be due to the Aurender N10 not yet providing MQA Core (first unfold) decoding. The Berkeley MQA upgrade only provides MQA Rendering, so it requires an MQA Core decoded stream to get fully decoded MQA. I expect that Aurender will be adding MQA Core decoding support to the N10 in time, and then you'll get full MQA when used with your newly upgraded Berkeley.