osiris1
500+ Head-Fier
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2012
- Posts
- 538
- Likes
- 339
I use an app called HibyMusic and it samples correctly on the iFi...at least up till 24/192. I haven't tried DSDs yet.
When can we expect IFI to release USB driver that enables DSD playback for Mac OS (like ASIO for Windows)?
DSD playing is working for me on Macbook Pro with Audirvana, but it is done by encapsulating the stream inside PCM, DoP, right?
And the Apple Coreaudio is still involded?
Are any differences between DoP and DSD directly to iDSD micro? I don't have a computer running Windows to verify which
one sounds the best playing DSD.
Can some one that have done comparison shed a light with me?
Cheers /T
I think you misunderstand what DoP is. That is NATIVE DSD. It just moves the DSD bitstream within a PCM one but it is decoded natively as DSD. No driver needed.
On Audirvana, just select DoP and off you go.
The side effect of DoP is that the encapsulation requires additional bits and finally enables on Mac "only" DSD256.
Tell us about your setup first before we can help.
my set up is simple
xperia z ultra connected to ifi dsd and using neutron player, the light is always yellow on ifi no matter what bit rate of the recording i am listening to , so how i can play my files without being upsampled
Since early this year, the new audio driver in the Z series automatically up-samples everything to 24/192 via Sony's HSEE engine. As far as I know, there is no way to disable it.
There is however a way to work around it, and some already mentioned it - you need to use a third party app that has its own USB audio driver, that means either HibyMusic, Onkyo HF Player or USB Audio Player PRO. Since they don't rely on Sony's audio driver, you can get native playback.
Since early this year, the new audio driver in the Z series automatically up-samples everything to 24/192 via Sony's HSEE engine. As far as I know, there is no way to disable it.
There is however a way to work around it, and some already mentioned it - you need to use a third party app that has its own USB audio driver, that means either HibyMusic, Onkyo HF Player or USB Audio Player PRO. Since they don't rely on Sony's audio driver, you can get native playback.
Stay updated on iFi audio at their sponsor profile on Head-Fi.
|