Correct MQA setting for Onkyo TX-8270

Audio Formats MQA
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Hi, I would like to play Tidal MQA tracks on my Onkyo TX-8270 receiver with Audirvana on my Windows 10 laptop. According to this

the TX-8270 supports MQA. Is that accurate? I have the Onkyo wired to the network.

One issue I am facing (and reported in another post) is that I don’t see the Onkyo as an output device in Audirvana. So I have a workaround: I see my Sony UBP-X800M2 Blu-ray player as an output device, and I can play to that. It is then connected to the Onkyo by HDMI.

So how should the output be configured in Audirvana to handle the MQA decoding properly? Audirvana (auto-detect) is telling me that the DAC is non-MQA. Should I tell it to use as MQA decoder anyway?

Thanks!

Mark

2

Hello @Mark_DeB, if you can’t view your Onkyo in the Audirvana audio output, have you check if your DAC is set in Upnp mode?

3

When you click on Music Server, it sees servers on the network. I don’t know of any specific control to put it in UPnP mode.

The Qobuz desktop app (Windows 10) sees the Onkyo, but Audirvana doesn’t.

4

The Qobuz app use other protocols to connect to your DAC like Airplay or Chromecast so this is maybe why you can see it in Qobuz App.