can HDX output music from rear USB connectors ?

Posted by: crackie on 03 October 2014

Just going trough a possible upgrade. Can the HDX, 2TB HDD latest version, output WAV rips and internet radio stations via the rear USB connectors to say an external DAC ? The user manual does not really say.

Looking at this feature with an eye on future DSD downloaded music files (if they ever catch on mainstream).

Cheers

Posted on: 03 October 2014 by crackie

Edit, perhaps I put the cart before the horse ! I should have asked if NAIM have plans to support DSD files in their servers & streamers in the near future.

Posted on: 03 October 2014 by garyi

No to usb.

No idea on dsd.

Posted on: 04 October 2014 by Hugh Craig

Wat is correct but in my experience only up to DSD64. DSD128 is not recognised on my ND5XS so have to play these from my Mac directly into Hugo - perhaps I am doing something wrong.

Posted on: 04 October 2014 by Aleg

Originally Posted by Hugh Craig:

Wat is correct but in my experience only up to DSD64. DSD128 is not recognised on my ND5XS so have to play these from my Mac directly into Hugo - perhaps I am doing something wrong.

It requires PCM 352 kHz support to playback DSD128 in PCM/Flac.

ND5XS doesn't stream 352 kHz.

Posted on: 04 October 2014 by crackie

Right, thank's for the advice. I'll look it up.

Cheers.