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Krobar

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  1. I tried this with all three DOP settings, some crashed Foobar and others just resulted in silence with no detection o DSD on the amp. Sony's DSD player which uses ASIO marks the amp "Decode mode" as "DSD Native" and "DSD over PCM" is greyed out. Jrivers works for Raw DSD as long as DSD bit streaming is set regardless of if DOP is ticked or not.
  2. I did try with and without proxy, it just wont work with Foobar. Obviously it works with DSD2PCM conversion enabled. In Jrivers you just pick the Sony Asio driver and set the bit streaming setting to DSD.
  3. Couldn't see any owners threads so here goes. Sound is great and more than enough power with my PMC DB1s for desktop use. Very low noise floor Async USB Support Up to 32/192 PCM (Tested) Up to DSD-128 (Tested) Raw DSD over ASIO support using Asio-Raw (Not DOP) DSD Streaming works with Sony Hires Player or JRivers but not Foobar + SACD plugin
  4. Thanks Pacwin. That would make sense, the stereo disks seem to be disk IO limited whilst the multichannel disks are very cpu heavy and multithreaded (Rate varies for multichannel, most are about 11Mbyte/sec). CPU is an [email protected] and using an SSD which might explain the high stereo rate. You have also managed to explain why the ISOs are smaller than the sum of the files in some cases (Guessing DSF is always uncompressed).
  5. What sort of DSF extraction speeds are people getting? Stereo extracts at about 250MB/s for me but multichannel manages about 8.5MB/s. Allso multichannel maxes out all cores, I'm wondering if it doesnt like hyperthreading.
  6. There is an open standard for async clocking over HDMI usually referred to as Audio Rate Control and this is an optional part of HDMI version 1.3 implemented over CEC (Might have been V1.2, my memory isnt that good). Ayre's Bluray player supports the open standard, Pioneers PQLS is the same standard but it checks the vendor string is Pioneer on the transport before enabling. It would not suprise me if Sony's HATS over HDMI is the open standard with a vendor string check too (Sony used this trick with their ILink devices).
  7. My own reasoning is convenience and keeping archive quality music files. With my current streamer I will need to keep converted PCM and DSD versions of each SACD. Your previous comment was valid depending on the quality of prepro you are comparing against and I think we are all assuming fairly high budgets (Afterall this forum isnt really mainstream).
  8. Name one motherboard or video card that can output DSD over HDMI in Windows or Linux.
  9. Also it does look superb ableit 4 times more than I'm willing to spend.
  10. For 2 channel it is only convenience and ease of use (IPad control out of the box). For 5.1 DSD this thing offers DSD output over HDMI, AFAIK no PC can do that yet.
  11. Thanks Ted_b I need to get my PS3 downgraded anyway so if I only want to use the PS3 for this then I suppose there is no advantage to a new firmware. What is the recommended 3.55 CFW variant these days?
  12. Do the new hacked firmwares (eg. 4.31) work with SACD ripper?
  13. Does anyone know if a device exists than can stream DSF or DFF files over UPNP and output pure DSD over HDMI? Have been looking for a while and cant find anything except some Onkyo and Pioneer Amps and I want a streamer.
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