04-Jun-2015, 01:20
(02-Jun-2015, 20:52)AllenB Wrote: Well I'm a little confused!!
I tried out DSD via Audirvana Plus 2 on USB to my Dev 200 with 8.0 firmware. Nice.
I have posted elsewhere that I felt sound quality had stepped down from 7.1.3, so I reverted back to that firmware at the weekend. A couple of days later (this evening) and I hit play on the DSD files in A+2, forgetting that I had downgraded the firmware, and it has played, no problem.
Only I can think is that A+2 has converted the DSD to PCM prior to feeding my 200. Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Or just barking?
Audirvana+ sends the DSD files out via DoP (DSD over PCM) which means DSD in a PCM file format so still not converted to PCM. The conversion occurs via the MAT algorithm in your D200.