MQA thoughts

My SMSL PL200T actually reads MQA. I bought 2 and appreciate how they sound. Anybody have some to sell?

tweak105-10-2026 11:47am

tweak1 OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,766 posts 05-13-2026 at 11:38am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @lordmelton Berkley? It's a Topping
lordmelton Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,174 posts 05-13-2026 at 02:55pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @tweak1 @8th-note Said he had a Berkeley
8th-note Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 468 posts 05-13-2026 at 06:28pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @lordmelton My Berkeley Reference displays the characters for MQA on the display when playing an MQA disc. You have to set the 701T to MQA which does the first upsample to 88 khz and then the Berkeley DAC recognizes the MQA format and decodes it the rest of the way.
lordmelton Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,174 posts 05-13-2026 at 08:51pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @8th-note Hi what's the highest frequency you have been able to achieve with MQA?
8th-note Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 468 posts 05-13-2026 at 11:20pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @lordmelton Good question. The Berkeley display only shows MQA, not the final bitrate. If I understand correctly, MQA compresses the signal and then restores it to a facsilime of its original bitrate, whatever that was. I never subscribed to Tidal and I don't know if the MQA versions it had displayed the original bitrate.