Hi , I downloaded a couple of dsd albums now available on Qobuz . When I play via Roon the signal path says it’s lossless but signal is being converted to pcm . Should the SA30 be able to play them in native dsd ? The display on the arcam is actually saying they are 384 kHz even though Roon signal path. Says dsd64 to 192khz pcm conversion is being performed ?
Thanks
Paul
Hi Paul the Arcam SA30 converts all DSD to PCM 24/192 for at during playback.
Native DSD64 is not so bad, but if you play back DSD128 or DSD256 then you start to lose information, but it still sounds great in truth.
It is still native DSD, just can’t play it back through it’s DAC without converting it first