My theory is that some people (and systems) are particularly sensitive to phase coherency and that something about the DSD’s processing is influencing phase. Whatever it is, that product sounds like it puts the music into a blender to my ears. I was so happy to find a R2R dac (the Audio Mirror T3-SE) that eliminated whatever was happening and just sounded so much more natural to my ears.When doing PCM (Redbook 14/44, 24/96, DXD)
Probably has something to do as Mojo Music states, that R2R Multibit conversion when done right is "Bit Perfect". Where DS (Delta Sigma converters) can only give a "facsimile" of it. But DS can do DSD, and now the some of the later discrete R2R Multibit dacs can too!!
MoJo Music.
"When a PCM file is played on a native DSD Delta Sigma single-bit converter, the single-bit DAC chip has to convert the PCM to DSD in real-time. This is one of the major reasons people claim DSD sounds better than PCM, when in fact, it is just that the chip in most modern Delta Sigma single-bit DACs do a poor job of decoding PCM."
Cheers George