That would be a simplification. Passive (DACless, chipless) DSD decoding is possible and there were some schematics of that. Looks for example for Lampizator DSD DAC (I believe it is discontinued now, but you can easily dig some info).

I wonder, if a similar form-factor R2R DAC with 1) a rail of R-2R dedicated for DSD native decoding and 2) transcoding any PCM signal inside the bridge to DSD - would sound more interesting, airy?.. And I don't expect you need so many R2R resistor pair for such DAC. And, perhaps, simpler...

Hello, R01 looks like a really nice product to buy, however, it is hard/limited to use. If it could be piggybacked to a number of devices in different classes (PCIe board, stationary HiRes player, Stationary network player, AV-receiver [probably with several slots], desktop USB-DAC, etc.) -...

Thanks, Andykong, for the answer. It tells more that it says )) I won't touch the subject anymore. Or almost anymore. )) But, again, not for DSD stream, where frequencies never match - NOS or OS regardles... By the way, does R01 board follows the same frequencies conversion rules? Any...

Why to 384kHz ONLY? Records with 44.1/88.2/176.4/DXD are not multiples from 48kHz (as 384kHz is), so "oversampling" them to 352.8kHz would bring less distortion and will not generate digital noice from imprecise recalculation. And let me reiterate previously ignored question: why 24Bit/768kHz...

May I ask why 24Bit/768kHz not 24Bit/705.6kHz? DSD frequencies of commercially delivered files are multiples of 44.1kHz, not 48kHz...