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Aurender N200 - DAC compatability

Hi,

I recently purchased a new Aurender N200 and find that it does not recognize my DAC for Native DSD. My DAC is a CEC DA5 and received the following response from the distributor - "unless the aurender can install a driver - it will not be possible to run dsd. the driver is needed for the system to recognise the machine and without the driver for the aurender, it will not recognize the da5."

I reached out to Aurender support and was told this would not be possible.

I'm really happy with every other aspect of my N200 and it sounds amazing in my system playing PCM files. The DSD thing is just a little frustrating. Anyone else have similar experiences?

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lalitk
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This is clearly a DAC USB board compatibility issue not streamer. I dealt with this before when I owned ARC DAC-9. It will not play high resolution files through USB. I end up selling the DAC-9 and got a DAC that can play high resolution files, problem solved.

IMHO, avoid the path of digital down or up conversion…there is no substitute for feeding digital bits in its native resolution to your DAC for final conversion to analog, especially DSD files.

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