Dsd to pcm 352khz

[terrys99]

Is there really a loss of quality converting dsd to 352khz pcm?
After converting a track, I noticed vocals. And midrange sounds more up front.
Why would this be?

[struth]

Dunno, never got dsd working with my dac. think its the drivers which wont install. i converted a album to dsd but it wouldnt play lol, so i gave up.

[terrys99]

Oh. I see.
Which dac?

[struth]

Its an smsl m6 .. excellent dac/ headphone amp that does dsd. You get dsd dtivers but windows wont install them. Tbh im happy enough upscaling anyway so just gonna leave it as such.. sound etc is superb i have to say and was considering trying one of there bigger ones.

[terrys99]

Your drivers should install, run installer has admin ,
If it still fails, go to windows temp folder and remove all in there,

Usually what happens is the driver may have had a glitch , this leaves a damaged file that your driver left behind, while it was setting up.

You could go go device drivers and see what's showing,

If I had that problem it would piss me off.

[Pieoftheday]

My server does dsd but I've never looked in to it, is it like upsampling or does the recording have to be in dsd like sacd? Jim

[struth]

Your drivers should install, run installer has admin ,
If it still fails, go to windows temp folder and remove all in there,

Usually what happens is the driver may have had a glitch , this leaves a damaged file that your driver left behind, while it was setting up.

You could go go device drivers and see what's showing,

If I had that problem it would piss me off.

It didn't take the driver. It used a windows one I think. I tried to get it to change but it just automatically goes back to the first. Uninstalled driver but then I show it the dsd one it ignores it and takes the original again. Sure there will be a way but win 10 is fairly new to me and I don't want to screw with it lol

[struth]

My server does dsd but I've never looked in to it, is it like upsampling or does the recording have to be in dsd like sacd? Jim

You need a dsd recording. Don't think it does it on the fly

[terrys99]

looking at the specs for your dac

USB Input: 16bit-32bit / 32kHz-384kHz (asynchronous)
Optical fiber, coaxial: 16bit-24bit / 32kHz-192kHz

It won't play dsd native,
But if you played a dsd or sacd from jriver or foobar2000 you can set up to play at 384khz with should sound good.

Or play has dop the quality would be indentical to dsd

[Pieoftheday]

You need a dsd recording. Don't think it does it on the fly

Thank you