Armaegis
Modern Modder Man of Manitoba
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I think even "native DSD" is just more buzzwords, right up there with balanced and class-A. The processing and filtering of dsd vs pcm are very different, and implementing both in a dac will compromise the other. So it's either have a completely standalone dsd dac (which only does dsd) with it's own filters on a separate board, or have suboptimal both. So virtually all dac chips, even the new ones, do an adhoc conversion to pcm so at least that side of the equation can be optimized.
Not that it matters, since there are incredibly few recordings done in dsd, and even fewer that were processed within dsd architecture (which is nearly impossible anyways).
Not that it matters, since there are incredibly few recordings done in dsd, and even fewer that were processed within dsd architecture (which is nearly impossible anyways).