As I said at the outset, re-connecting with Bob Stuart was one of the highlights of the show for me. But first, listened to some MQA content. The decoding was in the speaker. The DSP firmware was updated to decode the stream. Sample rates varied from 88 Khz to 192 Khz.
The box next to the touch panel (Sooloos?) read the bits and sent the stream to the speaker DSP to decode:
Selection of music in MQA:
It all sounded great. No chance of course to compare it to anything else.
What a relief it was to hear that they were not trying to get into music distribution themselves.
Bob said his latest AES paper on audibility of resampling down 192 Khz music is going into the AES Journal with much more detail. Can't wait.