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Fast startup at DSD512 and beyond is not a UI trick. It is a consequence of how decoding, SRC, SDM and buffering are organized before playback begins.
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Fast startup at DSD512 and beyond is not a UI trick. It is a consequence of how decoding, SRC, SDM and buffering are organized before playback begins.
Gapless sounds like a checkbox feature. At high-rate DSD it quickly becomes a problem involving conversion state, pre-rendering, boundaries and timing.
DoP is often described as DSD packed into PCM frames. Correct—but that description hides most of the problems a real playback engine has to solve.