No native DSD256 option for AK HC2

[kkk]

Roon Core Machine

2018 Mac mini, 3.2GHz 6-core Intel Core i7, 16GB DDR4 RAM
Roon Core Version 2.0 (build 1133) production

Networking Gear & Setup Details

Cable Ethernet

Connected Audio Devices

Astell & Kern HC2

Number of Tracks in Library

984

Description of Issue

According to the Roon official tweet and Astell & Kern manual specification, the AK HC2 should support native DSD256. In Roon device setup page, the audio device has been set to Astell & Kern HC2 and I also tried click load defaults as shown below:

However, I can only choose the max sample rate for DSD up to DSD128.

I tired play som DSD256 track and found they will downsampled. Any possible solutions to play native DSD256? Thanks!

(I am using the latest Roon Remote version 2.0 (build 1133) production on MacBook Air with M1 chip)

[wklie (Peter Lie)]

@kkk

AK HC2 should support native DSD256

Not when you use Mac.

Try Windows.

[kkk]

Thanks for the info!