Best native DSD DACs for use with HQPlayer?

Ladies,

I have borrowed my friends Cyan2 which he received last week from Wildism Audio Hong Kong.

Cyan 2 is indeed the classic we were hoping for. My measurements below.

And yes I am finally listening to it after measuring - beautiful.

Under 100kHz DSD256 beats DSD512 in all measurements. I won’t show DSD512 here, no point.

With Jussi’s classic 5MHz wideband Picoscope, DSD512 is nice but for my headphones listening I would choose DSD256.

Cyan2 is not really significantly better than the SMSL D-6 - but this is true discrete for the price of an RME ADI-2.

All measurements below using 44.1kHz test signals → DSD256 + poly-sinc-gauss-xla + 5EC-light

120dB RMS ‘range’ (nice):

Higher level dual tones create HF distortion but low enough in level:

Pretty much like the spec:

IMD vs level. Ignore the small ups and downs. ‘Line of best fit’ is good enough:

TDFD dual tone brings out more HF distortion but still low enough:

Triple tone:

Jitter perfection:

Jussi classic Pico :smiley: - it is good enough

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