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It may have been obvious to you, as the author of the post, but it clearly was not obvious to the final readers of the post.
You then describe a special purpose computer, to perform this conversion of music files.
Such a computer is not going to be available to 99.9999% of the users of any DAC, so is irrelevant to the discussion that was taking place.
You might as well have said that there is no need to spend $15000 buying a DAVE, because you can get better performance if you buy a $0.5M Cray supercomputer, then develop the machine code yourself.
Chord will be quaking in their boots at the prospect! :eek:
I think people are referring to upsampling/processing the original sounds with a regular computer using software called Hqplayer, then feeding it to a DAC, using USB. HQplayer can use the computers CPU but it can also utilize the computing power of some graphic cards GPUs. More computing power will allow higher upsampling and more complex filters, but people are using regular i7 Intel processors to do this. No cray needed