Tried DSD?


Has anyone tried some of the new DSD downloads off of the AS website yet? What DAC are you using to play these files? How do they sound?
stickman451

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I've purchased an Analogue Productions RCA Living Stereo Hybrid SACD remaster 'Scheherazade' and it sounds great but I do not have SACD playback, so I'm just listening to the cd layer.

I've downloaded two DSD files from Native DSD and they may be the best sounding music files on my SSD.

Occasionally, I run into recording engineers and hifi manufacturers and  they unanimously view DSD to be nothing more than a shell, unless something was actually recorded in DSD. The problem with recording in the DSD format is that the recording needs to run start to finish without interruption. 

I own a Bryston BDP Pi/ linear power supply to an Ayre QB 9 Twenty DAC/ASR Power Cord  plus Akiko Audio XLR stick via Wireworld Platinum Starlight USB cable and Uptone Audio EtherRegen/LP1. Sounds great!