A lot of the discussion around Chord products and their unique sound seems to be about their upsampling technology & WTA filter taps - 50k on the Qutest, 100k on the TT2, 1 million on the M Scaler.
Hypothetically, if one were take that advantage "away" from a Chord DAC by upsampling with HQPlayer and inputting a 768Khz signal, what advantages would the HQPlayer upsampling+Chord DAC provide over HQPlayer upsampling+modern delta-sigma DAC (say the Topping D90SE)? Or for that matter, how would the M Scaler+Chord DAC be different from the M Scaler+modern delta-sigma DAC?
I'm not interested in comparing HQPlayer upsampling vs M Scaler here (lot of posts on that), I'm interested in comparing a Chord DAC pre-provided with a 768Khz signal vs a delta-sigma DAC pre-provided with a 768Khz signal (assuming 786Khz is the max for both DACs, so neither upsamples anymore).