Playing MQA audio on a PC using Foobar2000

To play MQA audio files on a computer with  Foobar2000 as playback software you need hardware which supports MQA decoding.

Hardware:

  • MQA capable decoder with installed ASIO drivers

Software:

If you have an ASIO supporting soundcard: Select your soundcard with the ASIO protocol as playback device.

Else: Select your soundcard with the ASIO protocol as playback device. In Windows Audio Settings, disable all playback enhancing methods

Ubuntu Linux kernel 4.17 installation guide

This installation guide describes how to install Linux Kernel 4.17 on Ubuntu Linux. This works with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux and most Ubuntu-based distributions including Kubuntu and Mint.

The included kernel files have been compiled using the generic Ubuntu configuration. A low latency version is also available in the directory of the linked files.

This post is an update of “Ubuntu Linux kernel 4.16 installation guide

The files can be found at  kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.17/

Installation Guide (GUI)

TPM firmware upgrade

Windows 1803 reports outdated TPM firmware versions, including on the TPM 2 module I had from Asus (TPM-M R2.0) (containing the Infinite 9665 chipset).
This get rid of the error/warning you have to upgrade the firmware of the TPM chip. This is quite difficult and requires some fiddling.
The security warning is defined as ADV170012 | Vulnerability in TPM could allow Security Feature Bypass

cd Firmware
TPMFactoryUpd.exe -update config-file -config TPM20_latest.cfg
pause

  • Reboot the system
  • Open the bios and enable TPM
  • Reset the TPM  key
  • Reboot
  • Start Windows

Ubuntu Linux kernel 4.16 installation guide

This installation guide describes how to install Linux Kernel 4.16 on Ubuntu Linux. This works with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux and most Ubuntu-based distributions including Kubuntu and Mint.

The included kernel files have been compiled using the generic Ubuntu configuration. A low latency version is also available in the directory of the linked files.

This post is an update of “Ubuntu Linux kernel 4.15 installation guide

The files can be found at kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.16/

Installation Guide (GUI)