Powered speakers with built-in DACs

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8 minutes ago, ShawnC said:

The Yamaha speakers have a ethernet connection, thus nullifying the need of the microRendu

 

The LS50 has superb sound for the size, I compliment them with a REl sub to round things off.  

 

 

The sound quality/character of the LS50's would I believe be significantly different from the Yamaha's (though I have not heard those particular Yamaha's).  This would I think override any advantage in playing DSD directly (as opposed to some kind of DSP conversion).  I am probably stating the obvious to the OP however... 😁

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2 minutes ago, SMG said:

Any speaker that employs DSP for crossovers and equalization would have to convert the audio to PCM in any event.

 

Good point.  This begs the question if any real DSD (i.e. capable of native playback) DAC/powered speaker combo even exists.