I recently spent a lot more than this to go from a Non MQA dac/streamer to one that provided a full MQA decode. The difference to me was well worth it. My ears, my system, my room. It seems that this is typical. I compared with and without MQA and I could hear the lack of time smear and the better time domain articulation from MQA.
Aurender MQA update worth it?
I updated my firmware the other night and noticed the $50 upgrade option for MQA unfolding at the streamer level. From what I could tell it unwraps the MQA "goodness" and streams at a higher resolution to the dac. My dac is not MQA capable but I'm an avid Tidal user so curios if anyone has any experience with this upgrade.