NOTE: My albums were ripped using iTunes. Unfortunately, I discovered that some albums had no cover art meaning after you transfer them to your Aurender, the album cover will NOT appear on the Conductor iPad App. I manually went into that albums folder, looked for albums NOT having the folder.jpg file, Googled the album name, found the cover art image (jpg) and copied it to the correct location. YES, this was very time consuming (and boring). The challenging part is finding the albums that do not include cover art. I searched every album and added cover art to the albums missing it. This process took me several days. THERE MUST be better solutions but I could not find them.
The Aurender A10 delivers “FULL Decoder MQA file playback from the internal DAC. This is possible since the A10 has its own DAC.
The Aurender N10 handles MQA by providing MQA Core decoding only (the FIRST unfold typically to 88.2 or 96kHz) which could be converted to analog at that frequency by a non-MQA DAC or fully MQA decoded when processed by a DAC that functions as an MQA Renderer. Listening to MQA Coded albums having the first layer unfold is an improvement (my opinion). As was stated above, the cost for the MQA Core decoder license is $54.99.
When you open the Conductor App, go to the Master Tab and hit Master Search. 10,000+ MQA Coded albums will appear for you to search (great news). HOWEVER, we discovered, that sometimes the search will get mixed up and only 48 MQA albums will appear. This is a software opportunity (bug) that Aurender is working on (Question was asked at AXPONA). The suggested work around is to remove the Conductor App from memory and re-load it. This resets the Master Search field and temporarily solves the problem. I do not have a time frame when this will be fixed but I am hoping very soon.