Lucky/Unlucky with HQPlayer on Mac platform

[Currawong]

I always go for the most RAM that's sanely affordable. I bought the 13" MacBook Pro M2. What is now basically available as an Air but with a larger screen. 

I haven't had anything that can accept beyond DSD512, but I did try out the latest modulator in HQPlayer 5 with good results and no issues beyond weird problems where a directly connected DAC wouldn't accept DSD, but one networked through an iFi Neo Stream would.

 

PCM up to 768k has been fine. The demands are far lower than for DSD.  My 2019 i5 iMac can't do DSD512 reliably from HQPlayer though, last I tried it.