People run them on ultra low power tube amps. I think your denon will cover you for a while. Maybe just don’t play for the neighborhood.

I am using roon to avoid heos. Heos needs work. No radio or Playlist from tidal is pretty stupid. I have heard they working to get tidal connect working at some point.

If it can sleep and wake on its own then I will let it power off. If I have to get up and turn it on, I leave it on.

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Damn that space is nice

Maybe take Bluetooth and tubes out of your equation to see if you drop the distortion. Both are hurting your audio. You want the cleanest path possible. Cheap tubes and Bluetooth are not the way.

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I don’t think you will get mqa through hdmi. Tvs resample everything to 48khz. You either play with no video and get unaltered audio with mqa when available or get video with everything playing at 48khz. I don’t think there is a way to get both. I’m not even sure if the videos have mqa encoded audio to start with. There would be zero reason for them to do that since there aren’t any mqa supported tvs.

Digital knobs. The 40 feels as good as or better than most devices using digital knobs.

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I don’t

I came here to hate on it but I can’t. One less device on the desk. Not a bad idea.

I’m not sure the TV is sending the same stream. One most tvs resample everything to one bitrate. My Samsung for instance makes everything 48khz. Second I’m not sure if tvs get lossless streams to begin with. If I were tidal or apple, I would assume people streaming through their tvs might not care if they are getting lossless streams and save bandwidth (money). Just a guess tho. Either way streaming through my dedicated streamers always sounds different than the apps in the TV.

I see 16/44 when I use airplay through roon. That should technically be lossless but it sounds not great on my setup. Really odd, it may have something to do with roon but it sounds almost muffled. If I use upnp the same files sound fine.

I read somewhere that the reason mqa often sound better just has to do with them being closer to the original master. It should technically be lower quality since there is compression involved but the fact that they are coming from very specific masters directly from studios, they can sound better than lossless copies that came from lesser sources.