Full MQA rendering from DCS Network Bridge

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Hi Chee Leong, welcome to the community.

With the dCS Network Bridge, you unfortunately cannot turn off the first MQA unfolding. So, your Luxman and Meridian will have to perform just MQA rendering.

See response to this same question recently;

DCS Network Bridge and MQA Pass Through

Hello, I recently acquired a DCS Network Bridge. I have it wired to an Esoteric dac/sacd player via the SPIDF connection. All works great. One question related to MQA, however. In the current setup, the NB does the first unfold/decoding of an MQA file and the Esoteric player does the final rendering. The Esoteric reports ORFS to confirm the final rendering. Is there anyway to turn off the decoding in the NB and just pass through the original file with relevant MQA tags so that the Esoteri…