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Will I benefit from a new DAC that can upscale to 192

New to streaming and I enjoy it.

Will I improve my listening enjoyment by up grading to a DAC that can upscale to 192?

budget is under 1500 and I have no issue with used as my entire system has been purchased that way.

If so I am lost at sea with the options. 
I also am not sure the laptop is the best way to go for my source.
Not really close to any dealers that can direct me in person.


Equipment:
Rouge 99 pre
Odyssey Stratos mono amps
Rega Dac...1st gen
Vanersteen 2CE with 2 Vandersteen subs
4VS Kimber wire
Heros for interconnects
using  entry level Kimber USB cord
Dell laptop as source 
Stream Tidal
Music ripped to a portable hard drive as WAV lossless
 

mswobo

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shadorne
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Lots of folks using Roon find that upsampling sounds better. Ultimately it depends on your DAC quality. Many DACs benefit from upsampling. It makes no difference for my DAC so I just set Roon to stick to native sample rates of the original file.

Jitter is a whole other problem. Either go for a DAC that reliably rejects all incoming jitter or use reclockers and try various fancy cables until you think you have a half reasonable working solution.
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shadorne
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Upsampling has benefits in the way it distributes ghost images from the data above the Nyquist. The higher in frequency these ghosts are pushed the more like random noise they appear to the DAC. Random noise at high frequency is good because it helps make the DAC more linear.

Several top DACs have elected to upsample even higher which pushes the final output filters corner frequency even higher - this makes for greater linearity in band and helps eliminate audible brick wall filter artifacts.

In general upsampling is beneficial and will improve Redbook audio significantly.
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