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TrueVanDal t1_j59yax6 wrote

Maybe stupid question... You do have the Ztella MQA version? Goole shows that this DAC comes in MQA and Standard version. Latter does not support MQA.

Secondly, in UAPP "settings" > "MQA" menu there is a checkbox "MQA passthrough". Do you have it checked or unchecked? If information on the Zorloo website is correct Ztella only is a MQA Renderer so this checkbox should be unchecked (you want the phone to do the first unfold). But in reality this should not be an issue because UAPP should detect DAC capabilities and act accordingly but maybe it is not for some reason and needs a bit of guidance.

Lastly, does the UAPP UI shows MQA at the bottom and is there green or blue dot next to it? If there are no dots then phone is NOT doing the first unfold and sends the raw file to the DAC. DACs without decoder will not be able to decode it and will treat it basically as simple 44.1/48 kHz file and play it "as-is".

That's all I can think of. But I think it may be also just specific issue with phone/UAPP/DAC combination. For instance my Zen DAC V1 never shows up magenta on my phone and UAPP, only green and yellow. But it works on PC so I guess it is just nature of the beast.

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All_hail_Korrok OP t1_j5a6hdc wrote

>Maybe stupid question... You do have the Ztella MQA version?

Fuck.... I'm gonna leave this up as a mark of my stupidity.

To answer your questions for any future people with similar problems:

MQA is checked, but someone suggested to uncheck and a dev suggested there was no need to do that.

The app UI does show Green and Blue dots for MQA songs and non MQA songs.

This whole time I really thought the signs were pointing to the pixel being the problem (even UAPP still has it listed as incompatible) despite the June '22 update. The UI even told me to turn on bit perfect mode and MQA since it detected the DAC. Hell, the DAC packaging had information on how to turn this feature on. But none of it mattered because I couldn't read.

Thank you and to everyone who helped me with this.

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