MQA thoughts

@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.

@8th-note Hi what's the highest frequency you have been able to achieve with MQA?

@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.

@8th-note Yes you are correct regarding the compression that MQA uses I believe there is a way to rip MQA and it's brother MLP but not enough hours in the day. Ripping Blu-ray drives me mad as it is.

@tweak1 Have you ever checked out Discogs.com for MQA Cds? Search Japanese releases. 

@lordmelton 

Never heard of it, thanks for the link