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Now Playing: Dave Kerzner- Heart Land Mines Vol 1  
Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality?
@eisen0169  I’m not really big on the upsampling thought process as I believe that if the gear can’t reproduce 16/24/32 bit audio in the first place there’s no point in worrying higher sampling rates. So much of this depends upon the design and ... 
Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality?
You really would benefit by ditching Spotify and subscribing to Qobuz. That alone will provide a very noticeable change in how you’re hearing things.  
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Now Playing: Kanoi & KRPL- Geierspeis (New Krautrock/Space Rock)  
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Now Playing: Confusion Field- Future Impact Of Past Diversions  
Add I2s to Oppo players?
HDMI video and HDMI audio are 2 different things- I don’t know how well the $40 converter you’re referring to will handle audio reproduction either. The DOB unit that @yyzsantabarbara mentions has been highly recommended- but I’ve never tried one ... 
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Now Playing: Hackberry- Breathing Space  
HoloAudio Spring 3 Kitsune DAC NOS
In the end it’s what sounds best to you! Nice choice on the dac- I hear they are wonderful. My streamer will upsample as well but to be honest I have everything set to Native in my system. I prefer to run AES to my dac so everything stays native ... 
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@curiousjim - German Prog/Jazz that I’ve not listened to until now even though they’ve been around almost as long as I have! You might like… Now Playing: Kraan- Zoup    
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New Prog Rock release from Montreal Canada-  Now Playing: Vecteur K- Stratigraphie  
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Now Playing: Silent Grace- Deep Inside Yearning   
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There is none out there......
Have you looked into Naim products?  
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Now Playing: Pollen- Uncanny Valley  (Prog/Tech/Metal)