Lobes are created by a fundamental additive and subtractive phase relationship that is precipitated by the center-point placement/distance differential of two or more drivers on a baffle at their relational cross-over frequency… take it or leave it… The challenge is in designing a line-array that has the smoothest off-axis frequency roll-off in each transducer and matching their sensitivities and cross-over so to facilitate the smoothest possible transition… This is not a trivial thing… Time alignment of the diaphragms contributes to the reduction of lobe energy, but as you already understand, does not eliminate lobes… Generally, most folks are conditioned to hearing lobe distortion in their playback arrays… Those conditioned to point-source and planar systems, can easily detect this anomaly as a form of distortion…
The Danish seem to be moving the needle:
Yes, HQPlayer does DSD1024.
Many Holo Audio users upsample to this rate with water cooled PCs.
I did it once with a previous DAC that I had, and a gaming PC that was lent to me for the trial.
There are plenty of DACs that do DoP DSD512: Holo Audio, Denafrips, Musician, iFi Audio iDSD Pro…
But as long as I know, only HQPlayer has the filters/modulators that can do that.
Interesting. Can’t do it because Audirvāna doesn’t show the capability/option to play at that rate, or it’s shown but the upsampler and modulators won’t go there?
This money no object Bricasti M21 DAC will give you further insight into the value of DSD512 and DSD1024, as it does not support these DSD sample-rates and PCM sample-rates beyond 384kHz as viable in the real-world…
Bricasti is in partnership with the Audirvana “Plays with Audirvana”.
To bring this ridiculous idea that DSD512 and DSD1024 have commercial viability in the real-world of audiophile playback into focus… and to highlight the rhetorical marketing aspect of including support of DSD512 and DSD1024 for the neophyte…
