Devialet WiFi Bit Perfect?

[Sailor4W]

Yes, I use DSD via RAAT (works by air Ethernet as well I'm pretty sure) a fair bit.  The devialet it fundamentally PCM but I think they transform it mathematically to the same PCM format they use for volume control (I think their three letter acronym was Minimum Arithmetic Transform!). 

Just found a link to the white paper about it if anyone needs help getting to sleep .  https://www.tophifi.pl/productattachment...oad?id=260

Anyway, well recorded DSD sounds great through the Devialet!  I recently bought and ripped 3 of the MFSL Dire Straits remasters and Love Over Gold and Dire Straits are the best I've ever heard them.

cheers

Chris

Thanks so much for the link!

So what is the max DSD Rate the Devialet is capable of handling?

And you basically feed in a DSD file and Devialet recognizes it and plays ist over DoP? Or does one have to make adjustments in the player software, say, Roon?

Regards, Paul

Devialet will accept DSD64 only. Internally, it gets converted to PCM as usual. 

Roon will output DSD64 from any file you want. 

So, you could go Redbook PCM=>DSD64=>Devialet which will turn it back into PCM internally..

Would this sound better than just sending the original file to the Devialet ?  In theory, I would say no, but in practice . . . . .

Of course, upsampling of PCM files to DSD and re-sampling them back to PCM is useless, of not even error prone. I was more thinking of buying a native DSD album and see if I like the format. I have no idea, though, where to find DSD albums.