the monarchy unit is more than just an upsampler, it is a jitter remover also. i use these jitter devices between the source and the external dac in every 1 of my systems with a big improvement in sound. i would try the monarchy dip before your dac since your dac upsamples.
Monarchy 24/96 DIP and DacMagic?
(copy of earlier post by smholl): Does anyone have any experience or opinions as to using a Monarchy 24/96 Upsampler to the Cambridge DacMagic? Since the DacMagic will take up to 24/96 and upsample to 24/192 why not feed it the highest sampling rate possible? Or does it really matter to the DacMagic what it is being fed, since everything is upsampled to 24/192 anyway?