Furry wrote: > I'm not sure anyone has been, yet; the subject of this thread seems to > ask two questions, but the discussion seems (so far) to only be about > the first; 'Breakthrough?'. Setting aside the debate about whether or > not MQA is cynical proprietary-format snake-oil and/or a DRM vehicle, > for a while, what about the second question: 'LMS possible?'. > > How would LMS handle MQA, if Tidal does eventually stream MQA? Would it > pass it through to an MQA-supporting DAC? (e.g. Meridian Explorer 2 > hanging off a RPi?), or would (could) it process/convert MQA to > PCM/FLAC? I guess a plugin would be required for the second case, but > what about the first, for 'pass-through'?
Pass trough would actually work rigth now as the LMS system is today without any changes. That's why how tidal for example will implement it becomes interesting . The MQA info is coded into normal PCM so a wav or flac file or in some kind of stream then again it becomes interesting how they intend to do it ... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102648 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
