Is the DAC not the only way to decode the MQA?

[wklie]

On 12/11/2017 at 5:56 PM, granosalis said:

Could they be available in the future a sort of MQA-enabled Renderer that unfold and decode the MQA file and pass it to the DAC?

 

For the sake of this discussion, there are MQA Full Decoding (to analog output only), MQA Core Decoding (to digital output) and MQA Rendering.

 

 

MQA Full Decoding to analog output - Lumin S1 / A1 / T1 / D2 / D1

MQA Core Decoding to digital output at 88.2kHz or 96kHz - Lumin S1 / A1 / T1 / D2 / D1 and especially U1 (support AES / USB / BNC / RCA coaxial / toslink output to external DAC), Tidal desktop app, Audirvana, Amarra