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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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xboom
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Well, in the past (around late '80s) we do have 8x oversampling CD players.  That means we are very accustomed to 16bit 352.8KHz sound signatures.

 

Personally I tested myself on a headphone, anything more than 24/176.4 makes no difference to me.

 

IMO having 24/352 is perfectly fine.  And I like upsampling music playback, NOS sounded a bit rough to my ears, but some people swear by it as some holy grail DAC mode.  Definitely subjective opinion here.

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