I know that a $200 Pioneer dvd player is not going to blow an Audio Aero Capital cd player out of the water. I understand that quality high tolerance parts, massive power supplies, layout architecture, and build quality have an enormous effect on sound quality. What I am asking is this: are they doing basically the same thing? If the answer is "yes" then we should expect these relatively inexpensive "mid-fi" machines to come close to state of the art, cost no object players. Furthermore, if my assumption is correct then "upsampling" should drop drastically in price very soon. Shouldn't companies like Adcom, Denon, and others be soon introducing their afforable models in the $750-$1500 range that will be high class C and B to the Audio Aero and dCS units that we now have at very deluxe prices? Comments?
Exactly what is oversampling?
Can anyone explain what this term actually means? I notice the new generation of inexpensive Pioneer dvd players feature 192kHz/24 bit D/A converter chips. Does this mean it's upsampling an audio signal? If so, will it perform near to, say, an Audio Aero Capital cd player which costs about $5000. Please clear this up for me.