Linn support for DSD

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I've never given much attention to DSD given I'm in the Linn world, but presumably if you buy in to the idea that DSD has inherent advantages, then wouldn't transcoding it to PCM before it gets to the DAC rather negate the alleged benefit that DSD is supposed to offer, if the DAC is capable of playing DSD audio without pre-conversion?

I have the impression that the Katalyst DAC is probably doing its own conversion anyway, but need to go back and re-read the posts from the Linn staffers (by the way, I just love Linn for allowing their tech bods to post on their forum).