This high level / high frequency noise has to be suppressed before the signal hits the amplifier and speakers, in order to avoid amplifier misbehaving and/or speaker blow-up. A low pass filter is used to suppress the noise. In a native DSD D/A Converter this low pass filter has to be implemented in the analog domain which can be problematic because the nonlinear phase characteristics of such a filter. Alternatively this filter can be implemented in the digital domain where the DSD signal is converted to PCM (at e.g. 176.4 kHz / 24 Bit) and at the same time gets properly low pass filtered, e.g. with a linear phase filter which is easily achievable in the digital domain. Very few DSD - D/A chips work on native DSD data. Often the
DSD signal gets converted to PCM before conversion. One
popular example which does that is the currently very
popular DAC chip ES9018.