Very much agree with the NOS fans.
First time I heard NOS - over a decade ago through a simple Philps-based DAC, I was hooked.
Since then, virtually every oversampling DAC I’ve heard has been subjectively inferior to virtually any NOS DAC I’ve heard.
And I’ve expected to like, and hoped to like, and tried, really, really hard to like and live with some oversampling DACs - only to be very dissapointed.
The fact that OS DACs measure so well yet sound so inferior, at least to me, is COMPELLING evidence that we have yet to figure out how to measure what really matters.
Non-Oversampling (NOS) vs,
I am curious. Is a Non-Oversampling (NOS) DAC sound better than a DAC that upsamples the original signal? Or, in other words, is it better to maintain the “original signal” and not add mathematical calculated extra bits?
I also understand that a DAC’s implementation makes a huge different in the resulting sound quality and so does the analog section. I am just trying to better understand a NOS DAC vs one that upsamples.
I also understand that a DAC’s implementation makes a huge different in the resulting sound quality and so does the analog section. I am just trying to better understand a NOS DAC vs one that upsamples.