I'm a little unclear about the difference, in the RME ADI-2 DAC FS, between DoP and DSD Direct modes. EDIT: Update: This page answered my question: https://ifi-audio.com/faqs/dop-versus-asio-native-what-are-the-differences-similarities/ ] In DoP mode, when I'm playing a DSD file, USB...

Fair enough, though I think the mastering and the rate -- and everything else along the chain -- are of roughly equal importance.

You're never going to get any super-hi-rez bit-perfect audio from Netflix, et al. anyway. Those services will still play through your DAC, most likely at 24/192 or maybe 32/192 but no higher, so there's no point in trying to have them play through UAPP. I use UAPP mainly to play FLAC and DSD...

My pleasure. Yes, that is USB Audio Player Pro. It's the one you want. It'll cost, I believe, four or five dollars. Actually, what I think you will need to do is first buy and download the app, which is version 5.9.9.9, but when you side-load it into your Shield (which you can do in a fairly...

Netflix apparently increased its audio bandwidth rates in May of 2019. There are several write-ups about that, here is one of them: https://decider.com/2019/05/08/netflix-audio-quality/

You don't need an android phone to download UAPP from the google play store. Also, I bleieve you *can* play Netflix et al. audio without the shiled doing upsampling once the DAC takes over audio from the Shield.

Couldn't you just go to the google play store from your desktop machine and download UAPP from there? That's what I did. Put it on a flash drive and plug the drive into your Shield. "Mibox APK Installer for Android TV" -- this'll cost you maybe four bux -- will definitely sideload-install...

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It's my understanding that if you use, for example, USB Audio Player Pro (which has to be side-loaded onto the Shield), with a DAC plugged via USB into an Nvidia Shield Pro Android TV box, UAPP will recognize the "USB device" -- the DAC -- and will bypass the Android box's audio system. I had...

Yep, I can do that. Just ordered it up btw and looking very forward to it.

I've never had such a problem. You can easily get a browser extension that shows a different browser to the network. And all those programs on Mac and Windows are neither free dollar-wise nor free as in freedom. Mac and Windows will subvert you and surveil you in too many ways to recount...

Well as you point out, that's totally dependent on what you're using it for. For security (and user-freedom), it can't be beat. And there's a whole lot to do on a computer OS besides games and music, but I get your point.

Great, glad to hear, thanks. Does anyone know anything about firmware upgrades for Linux? (If not, I've posted a question on the RME forum about this.) Also, no one has said anything about needing drivers on Linux for the ADI-2 DAC. (Probably because no one here uses Linux, LOL. I should...

Excellent! Thank you.

9 also, with Shield software version 8.2.3. https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/shield/shield-tv-pro/