Solutions for converting vinyl to 256 DSD?

I also have a DA-3000 and can vouch for its ease of use and quality of transcription.  It has two quirks you should be aware of.  First, it only supports a maximum storage medium size of 64GB on USB drives and 32GB on SD cards.  Second, you will have to manually index tracks.  The auto-index by 2 seconds of silence isn’t as reliable as you might like and can’t handle transitional tracks at all.  The index by time inserts an annoying "beep" to signal the interval and that can’t be defeated.  Note the manual index can be done after the fact or during playback via the remote.  FWIW, I usually index after the fact and use an external keyboard to input track data.

Good luck & happy listening!

I use a Prism Sound Lyra 2 for ADC. I’m a DJ and rip countless records to WAV weekly, and although this isn’t a snake-oil hifi priced item but rather a pro-audio studio unit, as long as the rest of the upstream chain is accurate and not too voiced, the Lyra has gorgeous conversion. Never thought about it but you could probably record to DSD with an additional disc burner.

+1 @yoyoyaya I think the RME Pro Audio units are worth considering. They have very high stability clocks and very linear ADC performance.

I use an RME ADI-2 Pro for vinyl ADC.

In my system, the RME outputs DSD256 via USB to a DIY HQPlayer Server that performs digital riaa.

I get the sense that there are not too many folks taking this approach.

HQP has custom built-in drivers for the RME devices, so they configure together easily.

RME ADC will also benefit from upgrading the external 12v power supply.

+1 audio_guy_uofw

@OP - you will also, of course, need software to go with your ADC, and outside of Pyramix and VinylStudio, the choices are seriously limited.

Prism Sound produce great interfaces, but they are PCM.

As I said in my earlier posts, high res PCM has a lot going for it in the choice of interfaces and recording software.