upsampling CDP's for $1500? Big difference?


Happy Holidays Agoners. I have a Rotel RCD-1520 slot loading CDP. I was wondering if there are any upsampling CDP's in the $1500 range that would blow the Rotel away. I've never heard an upsampling CDP. What kind of differences would I notice if any? How do these work? Where's this additional 8 bits coming from? Please excuse my ignorance.
donjr

Showing 1 response by levy03

been playing around alot with the upsampling options on my front end. for the most part...everything sounds best without any upsampling it in my system. i'd say around 90% or more.

do agree with Newbee regarding a small percentage of mostly older recordings. some have benefited from upsampling in my set-up. no pattern or predictability to it. some i liked better at 192, others 96??. this however was very rare. maybe 2-3% of the time.

for the most part...upsampling seems a bit overrated imho.

cheers
Lev