AmusedToD
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Leaving the partner thing asie (as we don't actually know what that means) and taking a step back, it does not make sense that full unfolding only happens via locally stored files. Very few vendors make MQA available - I have found only 6 albums worthy of purchase. And truth be told, outside of Japan, there can't be more than a few hundred albums available in MQA. So my thinking is, MQA must surely be accessible via USB - otherwise, what would be the point - unless there was about to be an explosion of MQA availability as an alternative to normal wav/flac/DSD...
There are several thousand MQA albums on TIDAL. For me (and I suppose the majority of users), that’s the only MQA source that matters. Since the 1A/1Z don’t have Internet streaming capability (nor a dedicated Tidal app for that matter), USB DAC mode is the only way to listen to Tidal MQA files, either via UAPP on an Android phone, or perhaps through Roon or other software. I believe we have just proved that it works.