How to upgrade the firmware on your SMSL m500 MQA DAC

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3 min readDec 5, 2020

As it is almost impossible to find out how to upgrade the firmware on this online, I decided to publish how to do this. This is an important piece of information because this is the cheapest MQA DAC which can fully decode Tidal Masters. Perhaps, this can fix the Tidal garbage fires you are facing everyday even with offline files (I can’t verify that because I have already migrated to Qobuz).

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