SENDER · OS-NATIVE STREAMING
On Windows and Linux, the DMP NEXUS CORE installs itself — on Windows alongside a small set of highly specialized audio drivers. Whatever plays on your desktop — Qobuz, Tidal, a browser tab, your preferred audio player — is sent across the network untouched. Bit-perfect up to PCM384/24, and native DSD512.
This page explains the sender side. For the whole chain, see the architecture overview .
OUR APPROACH
We don't bundle standard drivers — we build them custom, to meet the high demands of streaming DSD and PCM at the highest resolution. On the desktop, the DMP NEXUS CORE is the orchestrator: it captures audio, shows you the exact format, and sends it — bit-perfect — to the DMP ONE or compatible network players via the SCD protocol.
The drivers feed the CORE and, on Windows, are seamlessly integrated with the operating system, so any application can use them directly as an output device — simply select DMP NEXUS ASIO or DMP NEXUS WAVERT (WASAPI exclusive) as your audio device and play across the network.
Each operating system has its own audio architecture. We work with each — two driver paths on Windows, a ready-to-use PipeWire sink on Linux — all feeding the CORE. And every component runs natively on x86 and ARM, so the stack runs on Apple Silicon, Snapdragon-based Windows laptops, and Surface devices.
WINDOWS · ASIO
Our ASIO driver is the path for native DSD up to DSD512, and PCM up to 384 kHz. ASIO-capable applications that enable native DSD output — such as the DMP NEXUS PLAYER or HQPlayer — address it directly, bypassing the Windows audio subsystem. Some applications from commercial streaming providers such as Qobuz can use ASIO directly as well.
WINDOWS · WAVERT (WASAPI)
For applications that don't speak ASIO, our WAVERT driver registers at the kernel level as a standard Windows audio device and can be used in WASAPI exclusive mode — bypassing the Windows mixer. It carries PCM bit-perfect, DSD up to DSD512 as DSD over PCM, and PCM up to 384 kHz. Native DSD over WASAPI is not possible by Windows architecture — that's what ASIO is for.
LINUX · PIPEWIRE
On Linux, no separate driver is needed. The CORE provides a ready-to-use PipeWire sink with bit-perfect routing and automatic format detection. Applications address it directly — no resampling, no conversion. Tested on Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora.
Apps — Qobuz, Tidal, foobar2000 — feed the driver or sink (ASIO, WAVERT, or PipeWire), which feeds the DMP NEXUS CORE. The CORE sends the stream over SCD to the network, on to the DMP ONE and your DAC.
MACOS
macOS CoreAudio offers no end-to-end native DSD support. Rather than wait for it, the DMP NEXUS VIRTUAL APPLIANCE solves this structurally: it brings a complete, PipeWire-based Linux audio subsystem — running directly on your Mac's ARM64 architecture, with no emulation layer. Your audio files are seamlessly available inside the VIRTUAL APPLIANCE — no copying, no syncing.
The result is the complete bit-perfect chain up to DSD512 and PCM384/24 in stereo — from the player to the DMP ONE. A genuine solution: this is the very appliance we use as our live demo.