No Native DSD option in Roon set (McIntosh C53) when playing DSD512

[Bas_Van_Kesteren]

Core Machine (Operating system/System info/Roon build number)

NUC8i5 with Rock Server

Audio Devices (Specify what device you’re using and its connection type - USB/HDMI/etc.)

McIntosh C53 connected via USB with NUC

Description Of Issue

No Native DSD option in Roon setup (McIntosh C53) when playing DSD512. It convert it to PCM.

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

You should contact McIntosh and verify that the C53 can do native DSD 512 with Linux. Usually, high rate DSD is done via Windows with the ASIO driver. Otherwise, Linux ( and Mac) use DoP.

If it can, then you need to verify if that ROCK’s kernel is patched for that specific DAC.

[noris]

Hello @Bas_Van_Kesteren,

Native DSD is only available for McIntosh DACs on Windows using ASIO driver, McIntosh does not support Native DSD on Linux.

[Bas_Van_Kesteren]

Thanks for the answer.