DAC’s are improving constantly to such a degree that if you have a good cd transport you’ll here almost any difference between red book cd to hi-res files ,many listeners that in the past thought that CDs are harsh and bright in comparison to vinyl are now surprise how CDs can be sound great if using a good DAC.
Can a DAC upscale high resolution music files?
Greetings,
First time poster here so please be gentle.
I just entered the DAC world. I own two DACs an Oppo BDP 105, on my surround system, and a Yamaha CD-S2100 for my stereo system in my kitchen.
I am jumping in first with the Yamaha DAC. I have already downloaded the Yamaha Steinberg USB driver onto my laptop and use a Kimber USB-CU B-bus cable connecting the two. I went to HDTracks this morning and bought Chiaroscuro Quartet " Haydn: String Quartets, Op.20 Nos 4-6 in 96/24 FLAC; which sounds phenomenal! The Steinberg driver defaulted to 44.1. I saw that you can change the settings up to DSD 5.6 MHz. I changed the setting to 192 kHz and it sounds pretty darn good.
First question is this possible with starting off with only a 96/24 file?
Many files on HDtracks are only in 44.1/24 which is only SACD quality, which I am a big fan of, but if I am going to use the DAC I would prefer the highest resolution possible if up-scaling does work for audio file.
My Oppo player will upscale for video but I could not find anything specific for high resolutions music files.
Second question FLAC or WAV? Or DSD?
Any other proverbial bones you cats could throw me about High Rez would be greatly appreciated.
T
First time poster here so please be gentle.
I just entered the DAC world. I own two DACs an Oppo BDP 105, on my surround system, and a Yamaha CD-S2100 for my stereo system in my kitchen.
I am jumping in first with the Yamaha DAC. I have already downloaded the Yamaha Steinberg USB driver onto my laptop and use a Kimber USB-CU B-bus cable connecting the two. I went to HDTracks this morning and bought Chiaroscuro Quartet " Haydn: String Quartets, Op.20 Nos 4-6 in 96/24 FLAC; which sounds phenomenal! The Steinberg driver defaulted to 44.1. I saw that you can change the settings up to DSD 5.6 MHz. I changed the setting to 192 kHz and it sounds pretty darn good.
First question is this possible with starting off with only a 96/24 file?
Many files on HDtracks are only in 44.1/24 which is only SACD quality, which I am a big fan of, but if I am going to use the DAC I would prefer the highest resolution possible if up-scaling does work for audio file.
My Oppo player will upscale for video but I could not find anything specific for high resolutions music files.
Second question FLAC or WAV? Or DSD?
Any other proverbial bones you cats could throw me about High Rez would be greatly appreciated.
T