Best native DSD DACs for use with HQPlayer?

Cyan 2 gets close to Spring 3 performance. While out of band behavior is similar to DAC 200 (Spring 3 has lower OOB leftover noise levels).

Audio band performance sweet spot is at DSD256 with very nice performance. Going to DSD512, audio band SNR reduces by 3 dB while wide band SNR improves by 12 dB.

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