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Owner’s Guide 10
Owner’s Guide
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Owner’s Reference
NuWave Phono Converter
people are likely to want to play. Using 96kHz and
below engages the best sounding decimation filters
in the NPC and provides a near-perfect zero group
delay for PCM users. 96kHz gives full bandwidth to
48kHz, exceeding the threshiold of human hearing
by twice (and vinyl LP’s don’t exceed 30kHz even
under the best circumstances), and maintaining
perfect phase relations within the audible band.
Exceeding 96kHz is fine, but unless you have
a good reason to do so and need the extended
bandwidth of up to 80kHz, not recommended for
best sound.
Once selected, the sample rate will appear on the
NPC screen.
If you have DSD selected on the NPC as the
audio format you wish to use, the format select
window in the Windows Advanced Properties
screen will display only two available
sample rates: 176.4kHz and 352.8kHz.
Choosing 176kHz will net Standard
DSD rate and choosing 352.8kHz
will result in Double Rate DSD being
selected. The choice you make will
be displayed on the NPC front panel
display window.
It is instructive to remember that DSD
will be sent using the DoP (Digital over
PCM) format which while compatible
with any computer or DAC that
can accept PCM data, you cannot
playback DSD data without installing
a program that supports DSD. JRiver
and Foobar are two good examples of
programs that will playback DSD over
DoP.
Once setup it is useful to test the
connection and make sure everything
is working properly. Use the PCM
format mode on the NPC (see above
for instructions how to select PCM).
Select the sample
rate
If you select DSD
DoP
Test the
connection
