Using Tidal with the Khadas Tone Board on my Essential Phone today I got the following surprise...
View attachment 22809It seems to be unfolding MQA on the HD Audio Accessory, in this case the Khadas Tone Board (or at least that's what the system is informing).
Here I try with the USB-C audio adapter included with the Essential Phone with no MQA unfolding mentioned by the system...
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And here I'm using the DragonFly Red which is known to unfold MQA as it is a renderer and shows the same message from the system as with the Khadas Tone Board...
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I'm unsure if in reality the KTB is unfolding MQA as it is not catalogued as a render or a decoder. Also, I'm not a fan of MQA, but still I'm interested in knowing what's happening. So, any ideas?