Upsampling. Truth vs Marketing


Has anyone done a blind AB test of the up sampling capabilities of a player? If so what was the result?

The reason why I ask because all the players and converters that do support up sampling are going to 192 from 44.1. And that is just plane wrong.

This would add huge amount of interpolation errors to the conversion. And should sound like crap, compared.
I understand why MFG don't go the logical 176.4khz, because once again they would have to write more software.

All and all I would like to hear from users who think their player sounds better playing Redbook (44.1) up sampled to 192. I have never come across a sample rate converter chip that does this well sonically and if one exist, then it is truly a silver bullet, then again....44.1 should only be up sample to 88.2 or 176.4 unless you can first go to many GHz and then down sample it 192, even then you will have interpolation errors.
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Showing 1 response by darrenlite

I own an Ah! 4000 CD Player with the optional upsampler board. It's a neat comparison because you can remove the board and replace with the stock chips. Anyway....

The improvement is DRAMATIC...It's smoother, has better resolution and basically does everything better with the Upsambler installed.