Playback Designs MPD-3

Ghasley....one more thing: How does it sound vs something like the Berkeley on redbook and 24/96?

Thanks

It kills the Berkeley on rebook but again, it's apples to oranges. The playback designs upsamples everything to 6.1 MHz DSD so it sounds amazing, spacious, ALOT of air around the performers.

Ghasley, how do you playback DSD from computer file? PC or Mac and which software? I am in the process of getting may be a Korg MR-2000s to digitalized my LP and am debating about 24/276 vs DSD/DSD2 format. My understanding is that, at least for PC, all software pretty much much convert DSD to PCM first so you can't stream native DSD to Playback and there was a question whether PureMusic on Mac does the same thing or convert it to PCM first as well. I am using my computer server with MPS-5/ USB-X currently.

Signalyst HQ player plays native DSD files on the PC. JRiver is in the process of building in native DSD playback on the PC too. Both players can play native DSD (as well as PCM up to 24/384) over USB using the Playback Designs ASIO driver.

10-17-11: Ghasley
The playback designs upsamples everything to 6.1 MHz DSD so it sounds amazing, spacious, ALOT of air around the performers.

too bad there isn't an option for Native playback. I find upsampling to degrade the sound of redbook.