Hi @tedsmith some of my friends own a few 24/384 albums (such as this one from NativeDSD) that play fine on their lower-priced DACs from Chinese companies such as SMSL and Topping. Having upgraded their amps and speakers, they are now in the market for much better DACs.
The local PS Audio dealer is a good friend and I’d like to help him sell. My friends are considering the DS but I understand the new firmware won’t be able to decode 24/384. What’s a simple “layman’s terms” way to explain to them why?
In the early releases of the DS everything was upsampled to the minimum multiple of both 176.4kHz and 192kHz, 28.224MHz. 384kHz doesn’t divide into 28.224MHz evenly.
Later when I changed the internal processing to upsample to 56.448MHz tho 384kHz does divide into 56.448MHz evenly I would need a quality filter to upsample 384kHz. It wasn’t a problem when I couldn’t upsample 384kHz and when I could in principle I couldn’t see myself degrading the sound quality of all of the other PCM upsampling just to add 384kHz upsampling.
There are more resources in the DS Mk II and if it doesn’t do 384kHz in the first release the second software release will support it.
The team is working very hard on the new OS and we are making massive progress. Just as Paul stated, 2 weeks seems about right unless we discover some bugs.
You guys are going to love this OS. Ted has done it again, folks.
What I want to know is what’s the difference between an Analog Engineer and a Senior Analog Engineer? Do the Analog Engineers only work on RCA connections and the Senior move up to XLR?
Will the DSD firmware upgrade be available for purchase on SD card? I ask as my MacBook Pro just died and it’s replacement, MacBook Air, has no means to readily use SD cards. Argh!
Yes! eight days to go. I bought the XS4400 mod, but I am hesitating to do the soldering. Hopefully the next-windom will give a lot of new discoveries in sound so that I can wait with the mod a couple of months!
