Chord DAVE and ARIES Mini.

[rjb301]

Hi all.

Apologies of this has been answered before.

 

I have been running my DAVE for 18 months now and I have my ARIES mini connected via USB cable.  My understanding is that DAVE does not do MQA conversion.  However, just the other day I was listening to TIDAL via the ARIES and I just happened to choose an album that was MQA encoded and I noticed the screen on DAVE turn blue (192 kHz 24 bit) and it looked like to me it was playing the file at a higher bit rate.  IS this right?  Or is it the ARIES mini that has the MQA capacity?  I tested this with another four or five albums in TIDAL and same thing.  Some were up sampling to 88.2 kHz. Am I not truly getting the MQA encoding?  Not sure all this makes sense.  But I am certain that DAVE does not do this.

[rjb301]

Thanks George.  Yes.  Really happy with the mini. Great sound and stable.  Only problem I have is with the Lightning DS app.  Doesn’t seem to save all the artwork.  Not all of my titles have artwork and I haven’t worked out how to fix it.  

Rob.