Audioquest says that the light on the dragonfly will glow magenta to indicate an MQA feed. I do not believe that this color shows anything about MQA; rather, it seems to me that it indicates a 96 kHz bit rate.
Everything seems to work perfectly using TIDAL. And the device itself sounds fantastic.
However, if I stop TIDAL on OS X, and change the bit rate of the audio feed using OS X audio MIDI setup, and then go play a file from iTunes, the lights on the dragonfly change to whatever bit rate I selected using audio MIDI setup. My understanding of iTunes is that it can only send out audio at 44.1 kHz, and that it has nothing to do with MQA.
Therefore, I do not believe that the lights on the dragonfly reflect an MQA feed when they glow purple. If the data source is iTunes, there is no way the MQA should ever be indicated. There is no MQA data anywhere.
It seems to me that OS X is upsampling iTunes audio from 44.1 kHz to whatever bit rate I select using audio midi set up. And then the dragonfly just turns on the lights to echo the bit rate of whatever audio is being sent from the operating system.
I don't think there's light has anything to do with MQA. What am I getting wrong?
Everything seems to work perfectly using TIDAL. And the device itself sounds fantastic.
However, if I stop TIDAL on OS X, and change the bit rate of the audio feed using OS X audio MIDI setup, and then go play a file from iTunes, the lights on the dragonfly change to whatever bit rate I selected using audio MIDI setup. My understanding of iTunes is that it can only send out audio at 44.1 kHz, and that it has nothing to do with MQA.
Therefore, I do not believe that the lights on the dragonfly reflect an MQA feed when they glow purple. If the data source is iTunes, there is no way the MQA should ever be indicated. There is no MQA data anywhere.
It seems to me that OS X is upsampling iTunes audio from 44.1 kHz to whatever bit rate I select using audio midi set up. And then the dragonfly just turns on the lights to echo the bit rate of whatever audio is being sent from the operating system.
I don't think there's light has anything to do with MQA. What am I getting wrong?
