Doesn't the menu selection "DSD direct" enabled do this? It is a separate menu item that is not in with the choices of "Fixed" or "Variable"

Renderer firmware shows as 1V43 in HQPlayer. The DAC firmware is XXXX-247. HQPlayer A26 DAC correction can be selected and works via USB but the option does not populate any choice in the enabled correction field in pipeline when connected via LAN.

Apparently the DAC correction only works whaen connected via USB. Now I can use the Gustard A26 correction pipeline when connected via USB and the DAC does show DSD 11.2M. I can also choose PCM or DSD via LAN but the correction won't populate the field when via LAN. Listening tests to follow...

I am running Gustard A26 LAN Direct DSD. It is listed.

I can check the enable matrix and then check enable correction but the selection fields for correction are blank.

I couldn't get my laptop to find the correct permissions to share a LAN directly to the Gustard A26 so I'm running generic Cat6 LAN from the laptop to my router (ripped it off the wall and drug a cable across the house on the floor into my bedroom-some things are important), and Cat6 form the...

I'm still struggling to find any settings that allow direct DSD over LAN into the Gustard A26 to sound even close to the best I can get when selecting PCM. The DSD is overly smooth and lacking details and speed in the highs. I can use ASDM7EC-super (for a while until my processors start to...

Is there info on what this DAC correction setting actually does for the A26?

I see a reference on the HQPlayer site for a specific "DAC correction for the Gustard A26 but can't find any direction as to how to select it on anywhere. ?

Isn't there an onboard conversion to DSD (SDM) within the Gustard A26 (any Delta Sigma DAC?) that should be doing the same thing already? But at an even more internal processor restrained way, when receiving PCM?

I finally found some settings that lets me say that I like the LAN DSD 256 conversion of 24/192 WAV files in the Gustard A26 better than LAN PCM 768. The ASDM7EC-super is a really nice sounding modulator. DSD conversion is way more processor hungry than PCM upsampling so I can only run the...

I finally found some settings that lets me say that I like the LAN DSD 256 conversion of 24/192 WAV files in the Gustard A26 better than LAN PCM 768. The ASDM7EC-super is a really nice sounding modulator. DSD conversion is way more processor hungry than PCM upsampling so I can only run the...

More comparisons again tonight. Still using the default TPDF shaper for PCM and haven't played with those options yet. I still tend to like PCM even though a DSD signal is supposed to have a shorter path out of the DAC chips of the Gustard A26. It is remarkable how different the various filters...

A couple more observations from a new user of HQPlayer and Roon with Qobuz: Streaming a file doesn't sound quite as good as playing the exact same 24/192 WAV file that I purchased onto my harddrive. And Dropping the WAV file from my harddrive into HQP and playing it from that screen sounds...

I'm sure that others here have already done that. So all I have to do now is look up the results that they posted. But then I might not agree with their preferences. In fact I am already disagreeing. Having HQPlayer convert WAV files to DSD 256 over LAN into the Gustard A26 with its AK4491EX...

HQPlayer is a very dangerous program for someone like me to get started with. I just sat and listened to the same 30 seconds of the same three songs for an hour and a half. Back and forth between LAN PCM and LAN DSD and USB PCM into a Gustard A26. And I haven't even started to experiment with...

HQPlayer is a very dangerous program for someone like me to get started with. I just sat and listened to the same 30 seconds of the same three songs for an hour and a half. Back and forth between LAN PCM and LAN DSD and USB PCM. And I haven't even started to experiment with any of the upsampler/...

Found it. on the output screen select default mode "DSD". Now the LAN locks to "DSD 11.2m"

I yanked my 4 port TP-Link router off of the wall and ran a 50 foot cable across the floor from my headphone room (bedroom) to the modem a couple rooms over to at least get LAN input running to try it to see if it is worth the trouble to make a more permanent installation of hardwired...

I turned on network discovery (all the way off the page at the bottom so I never saw the "advanced Settings" tab) and HQP actually showed "Gustarender 1.43". For a couple seconds. Then right back to no device shown. I scrolled the menus in the DAC. I restarted the DAC. I restarted the laptop and...

The router is three rooms away from running a physical cable from there to the A26. I was really just hoping to just connect the LAN cable from the laptop to the A26

So I found "enable IEEE 802.1X authentication" and selected it on. Then there ar choices for "EAP Method". "Trusted Servers/ Add Trusted Server Name", and, "Trusted certificate Thumbprint"

Screenshot of the ethernet settings in windows 11

HQP is selected as the output device in the Roon App. Roon plays Harddisk files and streams Qobuz through HQP with no problem as verified that this is what the signal path is by the readout on the DAC stating that it is receiving PCM 384. When playing files that are dropped directly into the HQP...

When I select NAA IPv6 the device field is blank from any choices. Cheap Cat6 cable from laptop to A26. Is the R26 Gustarender 1.43 firmware the same as for the A26? I have the file ready to be loaded with balenaEtcher if this is a risk free thing to try. I have yet to be able to identify which...