MQA isn’t how I experienced this. That seems to work fine. It seems to happen when switching via USB and internet radio. If you are using a pre, most bypass the Mytek volume control entirely, letting it output full range, and using the pre to reduce output for the amps.
It is also possible you are overloading your pre though. If I’m totally wrong as to the source of your problems. The issue was not bits by the way, but sampling rate. 44 to 96 for instance doesn’t always work right. But for some reason it seemed to happen more often with Internet radio.
For instance a Toronto Jazz FM 91 station used to put out 96/16. When I switched ot them sometimes the Brooklyn would still say 44/16. That's when the audio was bad. I'd switch back and forth to CD or something, and it would pick up the correct sampling rate, and display 96/16. Then the distortion was gone. Weird it works at all, but the distortion tends to happen on the high end of horns and sibilance range.
It is also possible you are overloading your pre though. If I’m totally wrong as to the source of your problems. The issue was not bits by the way, but sampling rate. 44 to 96 for instance doesn’t always work right. But for some reason it seemed to happen more often with Internet radio.
For instance a Toronto Jazz FM 91 station used to put out 96/16. When I switched ot them sometimes the Brooklyn would still say 44/16. That's when the audio was bad. I'd switch back and forth to CD or something, and it would pick up the correct sampling rate, and display 96/16. Then the distortion was gone. Weird it works at all, but the distortion tends to happen on the high end of horns and sibilance range.