Request For Comments: Snakeoil OS 1.1.0 (Blind Testing)

[agent_kith]

Yay, we are on the same page now. Need to enable for each DAC type but I was never gonna work out how that is done. Glad you are on the case 

It looks simple enough, but whether it'd work or not, you'd probably have to tell me when I have the test kernels ready for you later.
 

There are still some people claiming native DSD sounds better and I'm not interested in the reasons why that is impossible; just a listening test of my own will do me. The clicks/pops of DSD might get worse or might get better; we'll see.

Native DSD is better technically I guess because it does not have the extra over head of the PCM. And that in bold. Don't think native DSD will have that problem any more.

 

Yes, higher rate DSD is the main thing. Blue Coast are releasing more and more music at 4xDSD. Some of it I have owned for nearly a year and never been able to play. This is made more frustrating by the "fact" that even offline, it is impossible to convert those 4xDSD albums to a lower rate DSD, without converting to PCM and then back to DSD.

People who like to upsample to 4xDSD will be able to do so more easily. Apart from the DAC sample rate limitation, I'm not even sure if any existing Linux system can do 4xDoP.

Native DSD might also help when you want music playing simultaneously  in 2 rooms via different DACs. I use Snakeoil server-USB-Makua in front room and same snakeoil server to sMS-200 in back room via network. Haven't thought it through but having native DSD (and higher sample rate) enabled for all devices might make this easier with more of my DSD library.

I look forward to trying it out  .

Shouldn't be a problem at all. Just define two different outputs. It is the output that determines DSD support, not Snakeoil.