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Upsampling, Can there be too much?

I've owned the Chord Mscaler for a year and loved it, but recently added two new components that have built in upsampling: The Aurender W20SE, and the Jay's Audio CDT3-MK3. I find the Mscaler works well with the Aurender's built in upsampling, but not the Jay's.

 

Conclusion: not upsampling the Jay's, and standard redbook 16-bit 44Khz to the Mscaler gives incredible 24-bit 705Khz to the Hugo TT2 DAC for finest sound.

 

With multiple upsamplers in a chain has anyone gotten static, popping, smearing, or any kind of distortion from too much upsampling?

brandonhifi

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vonhelmholtz
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@brandonhifi 

O.T. Curious..On the Aurender site it suggest AES, or coax output is preferable to USB. Have you found this to be true?

vonhelmholtz
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What differences do you hear when you rip a cd to the Aurender vs play on the Jays?

vonhelmholtz
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@brandonhifi 

I didn't want that response.  All 6 conditioning channels on my Everest are taken. 

vonhelmholtz
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Perhaps, a blanket statement regarding up sampling is overly general.  Octave records has recently started mastering in DSD256, but prior to this they mastered in DSD64.  So, they have been upsampling the 64 to 256 and so far the reviews, to my surprise, are uniformly positive. 

vonhelmholtz
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@brandonhifi 

Shunyata might be the best way to go and I spent more on the NR power cables than the Everest, but this was the biggest upgrade in sound that I’ve made so far. If you are a dealer ignore this next part, but they had a large price increase a month or so back..so look for old stock.

vonhelmholtz
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@lalitk 

I think that was my point.  Results are dependent upon implementation.

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