I’m really sorry Antoine, but I’ve got hard time following you. Really sorry to take up some of your time here also, but let’s try to get to the bottom of it.
You’re telling me I can send RAW DSD to the device from MacOS. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but from all that I have read, and in my experience, you can’t. That’s one of the reasons why DoP was created, among others, to make the MacOS believe it’s PCM and not DSD. That’s the goal of the encapsulation.
For instance, when I select my Macbook internal DAC as output from the Audirvana menu, the menu to choose DoP appears : so here I’m using DoP because I’m under MacOs.
But when I switch to the network device, in my case Dietpi, the menu "“Native DSD streaming method” from which I can choose to use DoP does not appear, it’s simply not there, so I’m stuck and can’t send any DSD file to the network.
All my goal here, is not to directly connect the DAC to the Macbook, as you might understand, but to use the network to send the DSD files.
From all I’ve read since the few last days Dietpi supports DoP. For instance with HQplayer, Roon, whatever. But I haven’t been able to find any info concerning the combo Audirvana/Dietpi/DoP. I want to keep on using Audirvana. Hence my insistance here. My DAC also supports DoP. So ultimately I come back to the feeling that something is wrong on the way Audirvana handle whether Dietpi, whether my DAC. So I’m falling back on my problem : why Audirvana does not show me this menu “Native DSD streaming method” when network player Dietpi is selected as it’s the only gateway for me to send those DSD files to the dac, hence using DoP ?
I know… Head scratching…
You’re telling me :
you don’t have to use USB : it’s just you will need to use it if your device is not working well over UPnP
But my device is working with UPnP. It’s known to accept DoP, as long as I can chosse this option to send DoP to it : which in the present case I can’t because of the absence of this “Native DSD streaming method” menu.