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Up and Over sampling EXACTLY the same thing

The marketing hype surrounding "upsampling" is really irresponsible. Many audiophiles appear to be falling for it too as I see many posts on here such as "does it upsample" or "yeah, but it doesn't upsample". Upsampling and oversampling are EXACTLY the same thing and "oversampling" has been used by virtually every CD player manufacturer since the very beginning.

For an excellent an very readable article on this see Wes Phillips online article below.

Upsampling/Oversampling the same process

Some manufacturers have tried to correct this misinformation; however, it seems the hype that Stereophile and others created had already reached critical mass. Anyway, hope this clears the issue for some?
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Finally someone mentions this here in an enlightened manner,
although, even with this, many audiophiles will not give up their misconceptions,
and dealers that sell hype will always be happy to keep the misconceptions going $.
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