Dossier — TRN Black Pearl
The brochure speaks; the silicon answers. What follows is what each has said.
+ Vendor page › +Claims breakdown
| Claim | Bucket | Witnessed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCM 32-bit / 384 kHz | PCM | Alt 1, Subslot 2 — 16-bit PCM. Sample Rates Supported (kHz): 44.1 48 88.2 96 176.4 192 352.8 384Alt 2, Subslot 3 — 24-bit PCM. Sample Rates Supported (kHz): 44.1 48 88.2 96 176.4 192 352.8 384Alt 3, Subslot 4 — 32-bit PCM. Sample Rates Supported (kHz): 44.1 48 88.2 96 176.4 192 352.8 384 | ✓ Match |
| DSD256 | DSD | Alt 4, Subslot 4 — Type-1 RAW 1-bit DSD. Sample Rates Supported (kHz): 44.1 48 88.2 96 176.4 192 352.8 384 (DSD64 to DSD256) | ✓ Match |
Remarks
A clean concordance — and a device that arrived nameless. The listener's host announced only "TE-C" — not a product name at all; the silicon, not the label, names it. Dual CS43131, PCM to 32-bit / 384 kHz, native DSD256 — the measure of a TRN Black Pearl, and TRN's published claims meet it exactly, no more and no less.
A note on the keying. The USB identity here is a shared platform marque, not a mark unique to TRN — the same vendor block carries ddHiFi's TC44Grip. The Concordance keys by what the descriptor declares; here the descriptor declared a shared bridge, and the witnessing named the rest.
Where TRN's copy names DSD64, DSD128, and DSD256 without saying how they arrive, the descriptor resolves it: a raw DSD alt, carried natively to DSD256 — not DSD-over-PCM.
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