DSD and Double-DSD testing with Pioneer receiver

[simoncn]

(08-04-2014 16:48)Cornell77 Wrote:  I own a 2013 model Pioneer SC-1523k receiver, which is technically equivalent to the Pioneer Elite SC-75. These receivers will play back DSD as well as double-DSD files from a USB thumb drive. I want to build a NAS and decided to test MinimServer for playing back these same files over the lan. With that in mind, I loaded Minimserver and Minimstreamer on to my 2009 MacBook Pro. I used Kinsky, Plugplayer as well as Pioneer's AV5 app on my Ipad to control playback.

Here are the results:

1. I was able to pull both DSD as well as double-DSD files and play them back through the Pioneer receiver. In this case, I used Pioneer's AV5 app and selected the mediaserver input to play these files. The files were not transcoded but read as dsf and dff files.

2. I was not able to stream or push DSD files to the receiver over the lan. When I transcoded the files to dopwav, I could hear the music faintly playing in the background. The main reproduction was simply hiss. The title of the song would appear on the Pioneer display.

I am happy that I was able to play the files at all. It would be nice to stream them as well, as the Kinsky and Plugplayer apps seemed more usable than the limited view of the files available in Pioneer's AV5 app.

I have captured some log files that may help in this case. I am also not sure if streaming the files is technically possible with this receiver. If it could be done though, it would be great!

Have you tried streaming the files to the receiver as native DSD without dopwav transcoding? It might be that the receiver has a problem with handling DoP/WAV encoding. If you have a Windows machine, you should be able to use foobar2000 to stream the files to the receiver as native DSD. I'm not sure whether Kinsky or PlugPlayer can do this.

When you tried the "push" scenario, were you using DSD or double-DSD files? MinimServer currently doesn't support transcoding double-DSD files to DoP/WAV.