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The issue is with NAA. As I mentioned the setup works if I run NAA on Windows. HQP doesn't even break a sweat.

I was trying to run NAA OS on the same laptop. HQP DSD rendering is running on a separate Linux box. Couple of observations: - DSD 256 works fine on both Windows and Linux - DSD 512 works fine on Windows but gets choppy on Linux. I tried both wired and wireless connections, no difference - I slightly preferred sound on Windows but that could be my imagination It feels to me that Windows bit perfect driver at least helps to avoid dropouts. Is there any theoretical explanation (for example driver) that on the same hardware Windows would produce better sound? Thanks!

Any of our Rendu units with SO 2.9 should work as an NAA endpoint. I think you are going to love it and you can try it risk free. Thanks. I'm still not convenced from logical perspective why streamer would be sounding different one from another if DAC has proper USB implementation which to my understanding DAC 200 does. Also I would like to try DSD 1024 in future... So I'm trying to get into weeds on the difference I heard.

Hi @OE333 I was trying to use RPi5 as NAA using RoPieee on DAC 200. While I'm able to stream DSD 512 from HQPlayer to RPi, the sound was not the same (worse) as if I use my Surface laptop with T+A bit perfect windows driver as NAA. In both cases I used another PC to run HQplayer to get DSD stream. I did notice though that T+A is not listed in the list of supported DSD native DACs on RoPieee website. Should I be using another Linux alternative for NAA or just get a miniPC with Windows, T+A driver and NAA endpoint? Thanks!