For those who like the sound of MQA, having hardware MQA rendering (or full decoding) is superior to only having MQA Core decoding (via hardware or software), regardless of the MQA sample rate of a track - even if it's 96kHz or lower. The reason is that MQA rendering is custom tuned for each DAC hardware to output the sound in a specific way - some find it more analog and less digital sounding.
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