Your DAC has to recognize this DoP stream and transcode it back to DSD, then convert it into audio. Now it’s possible to provide your DAC with an encrypted DSD signal. This DoP encoded PCM stream (remember, it’s actually DSD) can be sent through the USB port. With DoP, a computer thinks it is playing PCM files but it is actually playing DSD. A group of audio and computer experts developed the ‘DSD over PCM’ standard, in short DoP. The trick here is to fool your computer’s playback system into letting it play DSD. So right now you’re stuck with a DAC which is not getting any DSD info from your computer. The major computer operating systems, Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X, don’t support DSD audio streaming using the USB port, only PCM signals are possible. Unfortunately that’s not the whole story. A DAC, which is able to handle the high sample rates used in the DSD format, can be easily connected to your computer via USB. The solution is to use an external Digital to Analog Converter (in short, DAC). Most computers these days aren’t capable of converting DSD into audio because their audio hardware is limited to PCM files, so you have to use something else. Playing back DSD files requires a bit more effort than most other formats, such as WAV or MP3 files.
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