there is a YouTube video of chord Dave playing a dsd256 file of s Japanese jazz trio. the file is available for free download in various format. all formats were recorded simultaneously. I tried all formats with mojo. to me best was dxd version which sounded better than dsd256. dsd files sounded a bit soft and did not have that kind of airiness and separation which dxd had. even 24 192 version sounded better than dsd256. here is the link. http://www.audioshark.org/archive/t-9579.html
Thanks for the tip! I don't have any DSD files and quite frankly, have no intentions of going above 24b96K which is about as good as I need it to be
However, thanks to those files, I got to at least try out DSD for once. I will of course also take the time in the near future to A/B them as well, just to confirm my assumption.
But for playback I am still "fine-tuning" my players. I got UAPP to play DSD but I had to make a change to the default settings. The Mojo's power switch initially shone
purple. The reason is that the default DSD setting in UAPP is for "DSD to PCM" and I had to change it to "DSD over PCM".
Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to square away Foobar yet but I presume it's a similar issue.
Foobar: yellow
UAPP (DSD to PCM): purple "DAC 352800Hz & File DSD 5.6MHz 1bit"
UAPP (DSD over PCM): white "DAC DSD 5.6MHz & File DSD 5.6MHz 1bit"
As for the 256, I get occasional pauses with UAPP - not sure if it's a buffering problem (the file is stored on the removable SD card), CPU problem or the App itself.
Foobar: yellow
UAPP (DSD over PCM): white "DAC DSD 11.2MHz & File DSD 11.2MHz 1bit" (occasional pauses/stutter)
Last but not least, could you please share the link to that Dave video...