The issue is with the drivers & volume control through the laptop.
#MERIDIAN EXPLORER DAC WITH MQA FULL#
Of course there may be one, but the 400 budget will limit your selection. Hi CA hopefully someone can help me here as Meridian dont seem that helpful I have an Explorer 2, using with Dell XPS & Tidal to earphones at work - Ive got full MQA decoding up to Studio Masters so all streams well. In the end what it meant to me was I would first need to purchase a great and pricy DAC, understand that only some recording would be an improvement and that MQA remasters/encodes were growing in numbers but currently limited.Īt this point I'm going to put off a purchase and wait and see if new technology brings forth newer and less expensive MQA DAC's and if the available library keeps growing. I checked a couple of low budget DACs that do MQA, but they don’t have a toslink connector. It was clear after listening that some MQA recording made no difference, some were marginally better, and a few were just down right awesome, the best I've heard in 50 years of playing around with this stuff. If the master had sonic problems there was little that MQA could do to correct it. The most expensive made a profound improvement but was way out of my price range.Īnother thing the consultant explained, the MQA albums were sourced to the original recording when possible and re-encoded making the needed corrections. Then we moved up to three better DAC's, all did make a nice improvement. I managed to get an afternoon off Friday and go to my local dealer to audition a handful of MQA DAC's.įirst we heard the inexpensive Project DAC, I could hear a difference but not what I would call an improvement.
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