HiFi ROSE RS150

There is no problem.
Native DSD can only be played over a Windows ASIO driver (provided by your DAC manufacturer).

All other protocols (WASAPI and Kernel Streaming) can only do DoP (DSD over PCM). If you set your output to ASIO in Audirvana you can do native DSD upto DSD512 (if you have the ASIO driver from Hifi Rose installed).

Maybe you don’t know this, but DSD over PCM (DoP) is also native DSD but ‘disguised’ in a PCM container (to fool the OS). This is recognized by your DAC and restored to DSD again. There are some limitations. In this case with the Hifi Rose the maximum DSD rate over DoP is DSD256 and not DSD512.

These are not limitations of Audirvana and the Hifi Rose, but simply how Windows OS and MacOS work. It does not matter if you are using Audirvana, Roon, JRiver or Foobar etc. These limitations are always the same.

For more info see the links below:

DSD over PCM and DAC max sampling frequency - Audio Formats / DSD - Audirvana

DoP open Standard | DSD-Guide.com

In A+ DSD over PCM standard 1.0 - Software - Audiophile Style

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