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MQA DAC or Not?

I’m running a Mac Mini with Audirvana to a DAC and recently decided to upgrade my DAC to a Schiit Gungnir Multibit only to discover that Audirvana and the Schiit don’t work together.
Currently I can get the Schiit dac to work with iTunes but not with Audirvana, won’t run in direct mode or at all with the Gungnir.

Questions?Ideas on getting these to work together?Or should I return the Schiit dac which isn’t MQA friendly and find a MQA compatible dac?
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kdude66
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I don't honestly know if MQA will sustain there are lots of variables in the mix.Here is a link I found that gives some of the latest content.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T0xnOzPQZai32L7R7e_uzxfBqhXrPuXh3USOjvuztYg/edit#gid=1599853...


I do also agree with what many others have said regarding the playback of red book.With the very good gear we have today and the high quality sound I hear with my red book recordings,which is the majority of my owned and streamed from tidal collection,is the high res stuff really needed.

I quess time will tell.

Kenny.
kdude66
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I can definitely concur about the song "what's new" by Linda Ronstadt,the vocals on the mqa version do have such a unpleasant glare but the music is ok.The regular non mqa version of this song is fine.

My direct stream does unfold mqa,but I'm a fairly new Tidal user and still discovering.

Kenny.
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