# Best native DSD DACs for use with HQPlayer?

**URL:** <https://community.roonlabs.com/t/best-native-dsd-dacs-for-use-with-hqplayer/132298>\
**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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**Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/best-native-dsd-dacs-for-use-with-hqplayer/132298/721 "2024-02-07T15:25:46Z")

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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):**

 ![DSD256 Multitone NID 5EC](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/d/7/7/d77195ead2d9bd78b392daebad218670cd711f2e.png)

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

 ![DSD256 CCIF 19k 20k](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/f/5/7/f57c4c0e9a049a4dc9134d757ece7e80e86a4bf0.png)

**Pretty much like the spec:**

 ![DSD256 1kHz SINAD dBC](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/7/e/9/7e90460c2395647ed2858e6f546315af5238539d.png)

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

 ![DSD256 IMD vs level - 5](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/0/a/5/0a59d18fa4abcc8291b465e3b32b9d70e2b1a063.png)

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

 ![DSD256 TDFD](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/8/2/f/82fa163c882e71e8b5eb34e6fc27d05348649c55.png)

**Triple tone:**

 ![DSD256 triple tone 10.5 19k 20k](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/d/e/c/decc640e3e257bf8406dfbfe58b6ddb8ebf64be5.png)

**Jitter perfection:**

 ![DSD256 jitter](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/1/6/1/161c1e6288a2eb53da0a0b8a8aeac600538acd5c.png)

**Jussi classic Pico 😃 - it is good enough**

 ![Pico DSD256 5EC](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/7/8/c/78c7b4647e3d15e8a11fc36e9f5ce732e5497f01.png)

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