[PROBLEM] White noise playing DSD audio

[MikeyFresh]

Yes it is a RPi 3B+. However if the issue were the decompression, why adding and additional step of resampling to 96Khz with SoX fixes the issue? The RPi is more overloaded and the decompression still takes place.

By the way, same thing happens with Stereo files.

OK, I understand this better now. I did ask you about what happens with stereo files in my post #18, and yes I agree that the 96kHz resampling only places an additional CPU burden on the Pi. 

I am certainly not arguing with you and have no similar unsolved issue on my end, I was merely suggesting a somewhat easy test involving a single rip with the DST removed from the resulting tracks. That said, since we now know that the issue is plaguing stereo tracks as well, then it can't be DST related as only the MCH tracks have DST.