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Same thing (no sound output). I did try many variations of the settings, including setting "Audio -> Format" to DSF, and also trying with "Advanced -> Bitstream DSD" ON or OFF. All resulted in no sound. BTW, even with Format set to DSF, the s88 still showed that it was receiving 176.4 kHz PCM . . . Thanks for your reply. Please note that I'm no longer gated by this issue: as my digital music collection fits on a couple of 5 TB portable USB drives, since posting this Q, I tried using the s88's built-in UPnP audio library server/renderer by attaching my music as local storage to the s88, and was able to get flawless playback of most formats I have (still trying them out), including DSD stereo/multi-channel, with the Linn Kazoo app, so I'm really happy! The s88 is reporting the correct format/sampling rate in each case so far. So, to me, whether I can ultimately stream DSD to the s88 using JRiver from my PC has become more of an academic issue.

Has anyone successfully streamed DSD (DSF files) to the s88 using JRiver's "DSD over DLNA" setup? I know that Kal Rubinson mentioned in his Stereophile review that he had used JRiver to stream to the s88 using UPnP, but I don't know whether that had included DSD. I have recently purchased an s88 Mark II, and I am running JRiver v. 28.0.94 on Win 10/64-bit. I was able to successfully stream both stereo (up to 24/192) and multichannel PCM (5.1, up to 24/96) to my s88 through JRiver using UPnP, after configuring the JRiver "Media Network", using (along with several other internet sources) the procedure in this guide. However, I just can't get the s88 to output sound when sending it (to start with) a stereo DSD64 (DSF) from JRiver using UPnP. JRiver shows it playing, the s88 shows that it's receiving PCM 176.4 KHz (the default DLNA server settings I configured JRiver with, according to the above guide, has Audio Mode as "Specified output format" and Audio Format as "PCM 24-bit", and hence the conversion to PCM, I suppose, but I will worry about that later). But all I get is a faint hiss at the output, even at a pretty high volume (s88 set at 0 dB, my preamp set pretty high). JRiver's "Audio Path" says that the JRiver audio engine is not being used, which is what I expect when it is the DLNA server. With the same settings, I get perfect rendering of PCM sources. It is worth mentioning that using the exaSound ASIO driver, and directly connecting the s88 as a USB DAC, the s88 has played everything I threw at it using JRiver as the player, all in the original native format (PCM stereo, PCM 5.1, both of various bit depths/sampling rates, and DSF files up to DSD512 stereo and DSD64 5.1). I confirmed these with both the s88 display, and the "Audio Path" display in JRiver. So has the foobar-2k on Windows/s88 as USB DAC combination. Any help to get me over this DSD streaming with JRiver hurdle will be greatly appreciated, thanks.