Rob Watts
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Rob. Questions
1) Can I use this to upsample to a non Dave DAC
And what rates will it out to... My DAC does up to DXD and DSD128...
2) Will this work for hi res files as well? I've basically ripped all my Redbook files to a server by now and the rest are native hi-res...
Yes it will work with other DAC's; Blu 2 has a single BNC OP that works at 192 kHz. If your DAC supports dual data mode, then you have 192, 384, or 768 available on the dual BNC.
Hi res gives the similar SQ improvement as RBCD (whilst using 768k); except older recordings you notice a big change in warmth; but this is less noticeable with modern recordings (irrespective of sample rate).
I don't know what the improvements would be without using a pulse array DAC - obviously, a Hugo 2 or a Dave will reconstruct the analogue much more accurately, as the noise shapers run at 104 MHz, (more usually 3 or 6 MHz) and the filtering is greater (a further 256FS WTA filter followed by 3 stages at 2048 FS). R2R outputs are very clunky, as the OP is glitchy and limited to only 384 kHz or 768 kHz.