Teac ESOTERIC HR - Manual (Page 6)

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Enabling playback with even higher audio
quality
Selecting the DSD decode mode
With the Windows version of ESOTERIC HR Audio Player, you can
choose the playback format.
Select [Device] from the [Configure] menu to open the [Configure]
window.
Set the [Decode mode] item to [DSD over PCM] or [DSD Native], as
you prefer.
DSD over PCM
Using the DoP (DSD Audio over PCM Frames) playback method,
the DSD signal is embedded into an ordinary PCM format signal
for transfer.
DSD Native
Using the ASIO 2.1 driver, the DSD data is transferred directly
without PCM conversion or other change.
Selecting the data loading method
You can set how data is loaded for file playback.
Select [Device] from the [Configure] menu to open the [Configure]
window.
Set the [Audio Data Handling] item to [Normal] or [Expand to RAM].
For playback with even higher audio quality, select [Expand to RAM].
Normal
Data is loaded in the same manner as ordinary file access.
Expand to RAM
The file to be played back is loaded into RAM once before
playback. Playback can be made more stable because loading
does not occur at the same time, and this enables playback with
higher audio quality.
o When [Expand to RAM] is selected, it may take some time to
start playback if the processing speed of the computer is slow.
Making settings in Windows (continued)