If you are tired of listening to low quality or standard quality music and your desire is to instead play live and recording studio grade original recording quality sound, NativeDSD is your one stop shop. Listening to DSD files will allow you to discover details in the music you were never able to hear before.

Playing DSD

  • Mac, OC or other Device

    A Mac, PC or mobile device to purchase, download and store the DSD files from NativeDSD.com.  While DSD files can be played directly from some DSD capable optical disc players and Digital Audio Players (DAPs), you will often need music playing software (such as Audirvana, Signalyst HQ Player, JRiver Media Center or Roon) that will output the .dsf files to a DAC. (See this page for a list of DSD capable music playing software).

  • Amplifier & Speakers

    An amplifier and speakers or headphones, which you will feed the audio with coming from the DAC.

DSD or (Direct Stream Digital)

Direct Stream Digital (DSD) is a 1-bit Sigma Delta Modulated (SDM) audio format developed by Sony and Philips. The DSD 64fs version of this format has also been used for releases of DSD music on the the Super Audio CD (SACD).

Musicians and Record Labels that record in DSD, DXD, Analog and Very High Bit PCM (24 bit, 384 kHz) and create DSD editions of their music can offer their original recorded DSD data at NativeDSD.com. You can download these .DSD files (available in the .dsf format with metadata) and play the files through your DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) or DAP (Digital Audio Player).

You can choose to download Stereo, Binaural and Multichannel DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64, and DXD.  A growing number of albums are also available in the popular Stereo DSD 512 format.

NativeDSD also offers Stereo, Binaural and Multichannel FLAC files.  These FLAC files, available in 24 bit 96 kHz and 24 bit 192 kHz FLAC as well as CD Quality 16 bit, 44.1 kHz FLAC are created from DSD and DXD editions of the albums by BitPerfect, using their unique “Zephiir” conversion process which produces exceptionally high quality FLAC files

Delta-sigma modulated digital audio

DSD files contain 1 bit audio with pulse-density modulation encoding.  The DSD 64fs version of this system has also been used to store DSD audio signals on SACD discs. DSD can be recorded in Standard Rate (2.8 MHz or 64fs), Double DSD (5.6 MHz or 128fs) and Quad DSD (11.2 MHz or 256fs).