Native Dsd playback issue with the T+A PDP3000HV

[andybob (Andrew Cox)]

The Nucleus uses a subset of Linux. Your DAC works with Roon, but the manufacturer hasn’t implemented everything necessary for it to report native DSD capability to a Linux computer.

Roon can’t solve this. T+A need to provide the necessary information to the ALSA developers of Linux.

Edit: T+A use the Amanero USB module which is said to be in beta for Linux. See news from T+A in this thread:

Roon not upsampling DSD256 with T+A dac8 and Microrendu

T+A reply to my query: “The DAC8 DSD currently supports only Windows and MAC OS operating systems. On Linux, DSD playback usually only works up to DSD128. The DAC 8 DSD was never advertised “compatible” with Linux. In the long term, however, the adaptation to the Linux Kernal is also planned. This requires a software update of the Amanero chipset, which would then have to be carried out at the factory.” Doesn’t look as though anything has moved on unfortunately.