Hi, I think it's important to get some terminology straight here, there is some conflict of terminology in this DSD stuff that is confusing a lot of people.
There are currently two ways of playing back DSD information to a DAC that actually plays the DSD data, one is called DoP (DSD Over Pcm) which is what is being talked about here, and the other is based on ASIO. The ASIO interfaced is sometimes called "Native DSD" to distinguish it from DoP, so I recommend that anyone talking about DSD over computers to DACs explicitly mention either DoP or ASIO to avoid confusion. This thread mentions native DSD and not DoP, when in fact it is talking about DoP, this could be very confusing to some people. It's important to make the distinction because some DACs support one or the other format, only a DAC which supports DoP will work with this scheme on the SB line. There are several player programs which support the ASIO format (which they call native DSD) which is very different than DoP. And yes DoP works very well with the SB infrastructure, just make sure you get a DAC that supports DoP. Unfortunately I have seen several DACs which say they support native DSD, with no mention of DoP, but what they actually support is DoP. And other that say they support native DSD and what they support is the ASIO format. There are a few that support both. So if you want to use this scheme with the SB universe make sure you contact your DAC maker and make sure it supports DoP. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99958 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
