QRONO By MQA Labs Hits The Market
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MQA Labs of Toronto, Canada, Lenbrook Media Groups audio IP team, has announced two innovative technologies within its QRONO product line. QRONO dsd promises to “set a new standard in DSD-to-PCM converters”, whereas QRONO d2a has been designed to “get the best audio performance out of every DAC”. Both of these new technologies – MQA dsd and MQA d2a – will come to market this month in the Bluesound Node Icon, brother to the Bluesound Node.
According to Al Wood, MQA Labs’ Director of Engineering, “The problems introduced by traditional digital audio filters are well understood, and QRONO is the platform that offers solutions for our hardware partners and licensees.” These new two techniques include filters and noise shapers that improve the overall impulse response and transparency of digital-to-analogue conversion to get the absolute best from each DAC chip. QRONO filters are not static like most DAC filters, being optimized for the musical spectrum of each input sample rate, preserving the original musicality as a result. While DSD conversion is handled with the lightest possible touch to preserve all the crucial time details in the recording.
According to MQA; QRONO dsd converts DSD audio into a PCM signal, meaning that listeners can play DSD tracks on a DAC that wouldn’t be able to do so natively. While QRONO d2a, aims to rectify problems with digital audio timing that often occur when filters are used to convert digital sound between digital and analogue formats, making audio more natural and lifelike while reducing listener fatigue. MQA claims that d2a reduces issues such as ‘time ringing’, resulting in a crisper, more authentic sound without lagging or echoes.
These QRONO technologies are claimed to; “enable time performance that exceeds the best analogue systems.”!
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