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OK, you need to back up a bit....

Posted by Ivan303 on December 23, 2016 at 11:25:23:
The discussion here is about DSD at high sample rates. The argument, and you are free to disagree, is that PCM converted/upsampled to high sample rate DSD before being converted to analog sounds BETTER.

Again, you are free to disagree. PSAudio, the maker of your DAC seems to think so as that's what they are doing in their DirectStream DAC as the upsample everything to 10x DSD before down-sampling back to DSD 128 for conversion to analog?

The makers of HQPlayer software seem to think that as they allow one to take PCM and convert it to high rate DSD (up to 512?) and send it to your suitable equipped DAC for conversion to analog.

Have you tried that? Does your DAC do DSD 256 or 512? My guess is not.

So we will have to wait and see, I guess.