xnor
Headphoneus Supremus
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There are couple of things I want to ask, but let's start simple. Who says that DAC doesn't upsample and what do you mean by upsampling exactly? Why do you think a lossless conversion like from 16 to 24 bits is an artificial enhancement? What makes you think that a signal left-shifted by 8 bits sound less natural?
[size=x-small]Anyway, I do empathize with a lot of people in regards to the 192KHz and 24-bit DAC trend. Since the popularity of the Benchmark DAC-1 - which I owned for years with lots of components, including Qualia, K1000, OMEGA II, $5000 speakers, etc. - every manufacturer has gone with 24/192 upsampling, which in many cases, make 16-bit recordings sound worse, not the same but worse. There are exceptions, but generally I prefer NOS. My favorite DAC is the CIAudio VDA-2 because it doesn't upsample 16-bit signals and simply sounds more natural, without artificial enhancement. 16-bit can be pretty good after all. [/size]
There are couple of things I want to ask, but let's start simple. Who says that DAC doesn't upsample and what do you mean by upsampling exactly? Why do you think a lossless conversion like from 16 to 24 bits is an artificial enhancement? What makes you think that a signal left-shifted by 8 bits sound less natural?