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Dr.Ames:
Hello all,

just installed the latest version under Windows 11 and selected my external USB connected DAC "Project S2" as default via the ASIO interface. I have DSD bitstreaming enabled and DSD files are played as such without any problems.

Now to my question, which has also been addressed in the past here in the forum. Is it still true for you that it makes no sense from a sonic point of view to upsample PCM files to DSD x8? My AMD 12 core processor is only used to 2% capacity even then - so that wouldn't be a problem.

many thanks and Greetings from Germany

Awesome Donkey:
In my opinion there's no point, I've done it before many times in the past and I cannot hear a difference at all. On top of that it's a lossy conversion (PCM to DSD, or DSD to PCM) AND the conversion on-the-fly is very computer resource intensive so if you ask me it's best to leave the source material as-is whether it be PCM audio or DSD audio, especially if you care about bit-perfect output.

Dr.Ames:
Thanks for your assessment - with Foobar I used this a lot. In fact, the interference-free playback of native DSD works better here in JRiver.

Dr.Ames:
I would have liked to ask one additional question. Does it make sense to load music files into RAM to play them from there, especially because I play some very large DSD albums. Some tracks have a maximum size of 8.8 GB (Bruckner 9th Symphony - DSD512).

My music library is not on an SSD and therefore it might make sense? Would the decrypted single track setting make sense then?

JimH:
There should be no difference.  Either should work.

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