Bernd

So at best there is something of the kind of "ius primae noctis" within the network streaming processor that reads or let me say touches the streamed data, isn't it. If this is done in one box or two or three boxes is completely irrelevant for me. All I've said before is that there MUST be a stage that reads ALL data to figure out whether it is MQA or Non-MQA. Let's hope that the bride is still a virgin when she leaves the emperor's bedroom - do I doubt?

So there has to be a stage in the DAC where the decision is made. What else am I saying? What is happening to the streamed data? Are they put into a big bucket and afterwards taken from either to the MQA-path or non-MQA-path?

Tell me a method how an input stage can decide whether the signal should be passed to the MQA-section or the Non-MQA-section without reading the data first. You have said that this identification has to be done and so it has to be done to both kind of datastreams. Whether or not there are seperate paths after this identification-stage or not is relevant to what I've said. Of course at any point there has to be the MQA-identification-stage and also the Non-MQA-file has to pass this stage, hasn't it?

Quote; Jeff's reply to firedog indicates that perhaps MQA can never be bypassed fully. iFi says otherwise. From their Q&A over at HeadFi: Us: how does MQA affect the remastering and filter modes available on the iDSD Pro? Skin: In case of Pro iDSD, anything non-MQA will not pass through MQA upsampling and that's it. Everybody who has the smallest knowledge in information technology understands that this statement is just bs. The system has to know whether a datastream contains the MQA-marker or not. This stage has to be in the DAC. So The datastream first is touched by the decision gate to do further decoding. Now how can the system fully bypass the datastream if it doesn't know what it is?

There are very nice pictures of Wadia, but what I was missing were some of the new exogal comet dac, which is made from former Wadia developers in general and Jim Kimme in special.