# Best native DSD DACs for use with HQPlayer?

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**Category:** HQ Player\
**Created:** [December 16, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/best-native-dsd-dacs-for-use-with-hqplayer/132298 "2020-12-16T19:59:01Z")\
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TEAC UD-701N is one of the more “esoteric” DACs (pun intended, as the same DAC is available also under Esoteric brand). It is a discrete SDM DAC, similar to for example dCS and such. It can work as a direct DSD DAC in three configurations as well. It has also built-in digital filters, multi-bit modulator and a DSD modulator, so pretty much just like dCS. But it can deal with higher DSD rates than dCS and is quite a bit cheaper too.

So first let’s see 1k THD performance with default built-in multi-bit modulator:

 ![TEAC_UD-701N_1k_44k1_8x_multibit-2](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/e/c/0/ec02adc941e67a36c80dd0fbdc4e556c7262f39c.png)

And with the built-in DSD modulator:

 ![TEAC_UD-701N_1k_44k1_8x_DSD](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/1/4/2/142aff51f9281d46e0f006b563b95931e21b720f.png)

And then with HQPlayer’s modulator:

 ![TEAC_UD-701N_1k_DSD256-FIR1](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/9/9/d/99d0c1a07f593211d7f9299b3d3a4f1977b6409b.png)

And same for multi-tone, built-in multi-bit modulator:

 ![TEAC_UD-701N_multitone_44k1_8x_multibit](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/2/3/3/233557c22f7299ee34e11bc480d37f68cd464d3e.png)

Built-in DSD modulator:

 ![TEAC_UD-701N_multitone_44k1_8x_DSD](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/3/8/2/38236294040a95644f3920dfc84e5f65b93aa71a.png)

And with HQPlayer’s modulator:

 ![TEAC_UD-701N_multitone_DSD256-FIR1](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/6/d/1/6d15d03cb22dcb24e2c9e6fba75899aa95c60bf7.png)

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