MQA

Beside the concerns of some recording companies like https://www.linn.co.uk/blog/mqa-is-bad-for-music , TRINITY will not support MQA from a simple technical aspect, since the TRINITY DAC plays always high-res files in master tape sound and does not need MQA. The digital filter inside of the TRINITY DAC is bypassed for music files with sample rates of 176.4kHz and 192kHz/24 bit. In addition there is no active filter after the current to voltage converter. Therefore the TRINITY DAC is the only DAC available, which does not add any digital artefacts like pre or after ringing. This is not just a claim, it can be measured. The DAC has an ideal impulse response without any ringing. Such a design cannot be improved!

Such a bit perfect play-back is in the TRINITY line granted.

What does bit perfect mean? Under normal circumstance the bit-perfect expression means the lossless transfer of the audio data stream from the source like a media-PC to the DAC via USB interface.

In our case the TRINITY DAC goes a step further, since the DAC is bit perfect up to the output connector and not only up to the input of the digital filter, which is not in the signal path as described above.

How can we get better than bit perfect?

Now let us look to the common used flac file format. Flac is a lossless data compression format, which can be downloaded as freeware. Since all the other software is using the same FLAC codec we can transfer wave files in flac files and flac files back in wave files without any losses.

That this really works can be seen here.

A 1kHz 192kHz/24bit test tone was converted with dBpoweramp to flac file, which was then converted back with Foobar2000, which I use as my favourite playback software, in the wave format. Both files are compared with ExamDiff Pro and show the files are 100% identical. A difference would be coloured in the table.

That is the way I like to listen music, a flat transfer from the master tape to the output of the TRINITY DAC.

Only this signal path gives you the sound, which had the artists and recording engineers in mind during the mastering.