“Commercial MQA-capable playback devices require payment of a royalty to MQA Ltd per unit sold. Based on information from Auralic, a manufacturer of Audiophile Wireless Audio Streamers, Meridian Audio prohibits digital output of unpacked MQA in any digital format, only allowing the unpacked data to be fed to an on-board MQA-compatible DAC and output in analog form”.
See this link for more back ground info on MQA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Quality_Authenticated
More info:
https://opensource.com/life/16/9/whats-wrong-with-
I hope the above helps. Any more questions?
I suggest you search Audiogon for “MQA” for many more questions and answers on MQA.
See this link for more back ground info on MQA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Quality_Authenticated
More info:
https://opensource.com/life/16/9/whats-wrong-with-
I hope the above helps. Any more questions?
I suggest you search Audiogon for “MQA” for many more questions and answers on MQA.