I know this has been covered before but i’m confused. What is the best software to downconvert DSD 128 down to DSD 64? I’m not looking to convert to pcm, i only want to convert to DSD 64.

Permanently? Streaming? On which operating system or device?

TASCAM Hi-Res Editor is excellent.

I will second that. And if you’ve got any DSD128 files that are .DFF, the conversion to DSD64 .DSF was -albeit a tad slow- really good in my experience.

Tascam hires editor and Korg Audio Gate. The Tascam can’t do batch conversion, Korg can (and meanwhile even supports DSD256 as Tascam already did). Both convert without -6dB drop and interim PCM conversion (which all other converters I got to know don’t)

Thank you! So not much (if any) degradation in sound?

I’m quite sure those two are the best converters, but to be honest, as I can’t play higher than DSD64 with the Bridge, I have no comparison.

Why not using Roon to downsample?

Don’t use roon. Plus doesn’t it use pcm in its downconverting?

Once you get to high enough sampling rates, the reason for distinguishing between PCM and DSD pretty much goes away. Even inside the DS DAC, all inputs including DSD get mapped onto a ~56MHz 50-bit sample space which if you look at one way is PCM yet in the frequency domain is still entirely recogni…

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crabby September 17, 2019, 4:05am 3

windows and permanently. I’d like to be able to play them back via the bridge.

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