The DirectStream itself does away with the usual off-the-shelf chipset solutions to digital processing. Instead, designer Ted Smith's use of FPGA, and the decision to convert all PCM signals, regardless of clock rate, to DSD, oversample them to 10x the single DSD rate of 2.8224mHz, and then drop them down to Double DSD (5.6448mHz),

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