That's a mighty ambiguous request, isn't it?
What price range? Which 'high priced' units do you consider quality?
Not knowing exactly, I'll assume you want a DAC which has multiple connectivity, inclusive of USB...and, do you mean to use strickly USB interface, or a sound card? The format of the music files isn't as important as is the error correction ripping, and using a lossless codec right up front.
There's a few DACs which will handle much of your request I suspect... that 'DSD' part though, well, I've yet to see a outboard DAC which processes DSD purely, without converting to PCM. There might well be, but surely not using USB. In fact I don't recall even one DAC which does DSD which is a process SACD uses... or any standard DACs which support DSD.
Finding 100% of what you seek in one device may prove quite interesting. I'd say it ain't available. 'Course I ain't the last word on it either.
My Bel Canto DAC 3 via USB only handles word lengths of 16 bits and sampling rates of 44K to 48K... convert that by up sampling to say 24/96 PCM and use a digital interface like AES, OR SPDIF, and the audio quality improves... a sound card is then required to accomplish that.
My sony SCD xa777 es, plays SACDs and supports DSD in the doing of it... but out of it's digital connections... only PCM data is produced.
Good luck
What price range? Which 'high priced' units do you consider quality?
Not knowing exactly, I'll assume you want a DAC which has multiple connectivity, inclusive of USB...and, do you mean to use strickly USB interface, or a sound card? The format of the music files isn't as important as is the error correction ripping, and using a lossless codec right up front.
There's a few DACs which will handle much of your request I suspect... that 'DSD' part though, well, I've yet to see a outboard DAC which processes DSD purely, without converting to PCM. There might well be, but surely not using USB. In fact I don't recall even one DAC which does DSD which is a process SACD uses... or any standard DACs which support DSD.
Finding 100% of what you seek in one device may prove quite interesting. I'd say it ain't available. 'Course I ain't the last word on it either.
My Bel Canto DAC 3 via USB only handles word lengths of 16 bits and sampling rates of 44K to 48K... convert that by up sampling to say 24/96 PCM and use a digital interface like AES, OR SPDIF, and the audio quality improves... a sound card is then required to accomplish that.
My sony SCD xa777 es, plays SACDs and supports DSD in the doing of it... but out of it's digital connections... only PCM data is produced.
Good luck